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Easier ways to say I love you

“I just wanted both, and for the ache in my heart to stop”

LUCY FRY is a journalist, author and speaker based in London. Her love life’s tricky, but the writing helps – a lot. @lucy_fry_writer

If I were to try and explain to you all the twists and turns of my triangulated sex life over the past three years, you’d probably laugh, nervously, before opening Google to check the meaning of the word “compersion”.

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