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2025

14 Lines From Love Letters Or Suicide Notes

By Doc Luben

Fourteen numbered passages deliberately blur the language of romantic intimacy, farewell, memory and despair, making it difficult to determine whether each fragment belongs to a love letter or a suicide note.