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There is something quietly vulnerable about liking someone and pretending you don’t. About turning real feeling into something casual, watered down, safe. We learn early how to soften our honesty, how to hide desire behind irony, how to play it cool even when our chest feels anything but calm. And yet, there’s a strange tenderness in that tension — in wanting to be seen without knowing how to ask for it. So much of connection lives in the unsent message. In the pauses, the overthinking, the urge