another love story

and one day, for no reason at all, she decided she wanted to smile again.
so she took all that love she had always given away, & gave it right back to herself.
because she was kind, & beautiful & funny & so beyond worth the love she'd always wanted. but she was done waiting. so she stopped tapping her toes by the phone & danced instead.
& somewhere between the laughing & finally putting herself first, she realized that the only person in the world who owned her happiness was herself.
& that's when something magical happened.

she lived.