My boyfriend always made me delete every photo of us I shared online — then one day, I received a note that said, “I think you deserve to know who you’re really dating.”

my phone down and let the tide come in.

For the first time in four years, I wasn’t hidden in the background of someone else’s life.

I was the whole picture.

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