I think the collar is negatively impacting the quality of my sleep, so being cleared to remove it could help the healing process too. I still have a long way to go, believe me. But considering where I'm coming from, I feel like I can do it.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.