Reunion After Distance

“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”

There is a particular sweetness to reunion — the moment when someone you love returns after an absence. The world contracts to the size of that moment. Everything else falls away.

But reunion is not only about physical return. There are reunions within long relationships — moments when two people who have drifted find their way back to each other. When the distance that accumulated through busyness, through conflict, through the ordinary erosion of closeness is suddenly bridged.

These internal reunions are often more profound than the external ones. They require more courage. They require someone to reach across the distance first, to say: I miss you. I want to find us again.

That reaching is an act of love. And the reunion it creates is worth the risk of the reaching.

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