After a long silence, I spoke softly, my voice a murmur, as if speaking to myself or asking the quiet man behind me. "Do you know... why I chose butterflies for this collection? Especially... broken ones?"Alex put down the sketch he had been examining. His gaze slowly moved from the struggling butterfly on the paper to my profile, and finally, settled on the tattoo behind my ear—a butterfly with a fractured wing, permanently etched there. His eyes held no judgment, no pity, only a profound, focused gaze, as if trying to understand."Because," he said, just as softly, as if afraid of disturbing something, "a butterfly's life is full of pain and transformation.It must endure the darkness of its cocoon, the tearing pain of breaking free, to escape its shell. Only then can its wings become strong enough to fly."He paused, adding, "Even if those wings bear scars that can never be erased. Right?"My fingers, holding the charcoal pencil, trembled uncontrollably.Eight years of love, giv
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