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Potential

June 5, 2017 5 Comments

Potential

By Sabrina Zitzelberger

She looks at him, and she sees the future.

Not a distant future five decades from now, where they’re on a porch, swinging, with some grandkids running around.

No, the future she sees is five hours from now. After he’s already been under, on top of, and inside her.

The future where she’s discovered what his chest hair feels like. And what he looked like while being simultaneously nervous and confident.

A future where he’s seen all her scars and declared that they are part of her and therefore they are beautiful.

She looks at him and realizes: they already are.

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  1. James Byrd says

    June 5, 2017 at 4:47 am

    Good perception of what love is, Sabrina.

    Reply
  2. Swarn Gill says

    June 5, 2017 at 5:01 am

    Well done Sabrina! Love in a very raw form. Also coincidentally are you the Sabrina Zitzelberger I know? There can’t be too many around. lol I published today as well. If you are the Sabrina I know this is quite the coincidence! lol

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    • Sabrina Culbertson Zitzelberger says

      June 7, 2017 at 9:31 am

      I am indeed the one you know 🙂 What a small world!

      Reply
  3. karenchiltonwilder says

    June 5, 2017 at 6:03 am

    Simply lovely.

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  4. Adam Davis says

    June 7, 2017 at 4:58 pm

    Absolutely beautiful. So much said in so few words. I love it.

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