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I wrote this one night weeks after a break up, having realized that I still slept only on the one half of my double bed that I had shared with my ex. I stretched out for the first time to take advantage of my new space and felt the shape of his body indented into the mattress. Obviously then I couldn't sleep, so wrote this instead...

by Rachel Hirons

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