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Zoë Elise's avatar

"And, you know, absence takes on real presence, denotes real shape, real curves." 🥰

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Zoë Elise's avatar

actually... oh my god all of this, took the words right out of my heart! lodged between my ribs!

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Chloé Williams's avatar

😭😭😭

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Rachel's avatar

Such a joy to receive this in my inbox

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morgan hickey's avatar

chloe!! this is so beautiful. i’m sure there are a lot of fancy words i could find to describe it, but at its heart this is just so, so beautiful.

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Chloé Williams's avatar

I can always count on you Morgan 😭🥹

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ifiweresummer's avatar

love how lucky i’m that there is always scope to randomly stumble upon something like this that is so comforting, and warm (& insanely relatable) and just everything beautiful, a simple “thank you for writing this” feels too short of a sentence to encapsulate what i’m currently feeling at the moment! but yes, thank you for writing this (said with lots of feelings, all good ones though!) 🤍

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Chloé Williams's avatar

:') I needed this today!!

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bill's avatar

I turn 30 next year, thank you for perfectly articulating what I feel and how it is to live in a state of want. Knowing that you won't be healed fully by having a partner, but it will add such peace to your life. I thought I was alone in saving shows, movies, and ideas for a future love, and it brings me peace to know that I am not alone in that longing. I know she's waiting for me as well, just around the corner, no matter how big that corner may be.

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Emma Parkinson's avatar

how wonderful to read this alone in my apartment this morning over a cup of tea. how beautiful it is, how tender, how thankful i am as always to receive it!!

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brynn alloway's avatar

remarkable.

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Chloé Williams's avatar

:’) THANK U BRYNN

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Lael Moore's avatar

oh, this put the biggest lump in my throat. I really really loved it.

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Chloé Williams's avatar

😭

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ifiweresummer's avatar

the way I keep coming back to this post every few weeks is a testament to how stunningly written this piece is…

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lover's avatar

this is my new fav piece on substack! really beautiful<333

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Mandy McKamie's avatar

Beautiful work, Chloe!!!

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