For Five Years She Cared For Her Paralyzed Husband Until She Overheard Him Call Her His Free Servant

change anything between us.

I believed love meant persistence, that devotion was measured in how much you could endure.

What I did not realize was how quietly sacrifice can erode a person, wearing you down like water on stone until there is nothing left of who you used to be.

The years blurred into repetition, each day a copy of the one before.

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