A Year Without You In My Life

Anna Vertiyev
3 min readJan 17, 2022
Photo by Pascal Bernardon on Unsplash

It’s been exactly a year since you broke up with me in that horrid 2am face-time call. It brought me down a short, yet terrifyingly dense path, that makes me extremely embarrassed to even mention. How could I ever had someone like you influence me enough to allow myself into the arms of strangers?

I let you control my thinking for months leading up to that point and had even let it continue afterwards. You had…

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Anna Vertiyev

Daughter, Best Friend, Girlfriend, Sister, Aunt with so many titles that she can’t answer “who are you” with a single answer.