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sometimes the loneliest place is right next to someone who doesn’t see you | musing no. 12

you were never alone. you were just invisible.

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Jul 03, 2025
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A woman in a cream slip lies awake in bed, facing the camera with a distant, pained expression. Beside her, a shirtless man lies turned away, asleep. Soft morning light filters in, casting emotional weight across the scene. Visual for cuffed musing no. 12: “sometimes the loneliest place is right next to someone who doesn’t see you.”

There’s a specific kind of loneliness no one warns you about.

It doesn’t come from being single. It doesn’t come from solitude.

It comes from being with someone—and still feeling invisible.

From across …

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