I wish these would be longer, if only to have more explanation, more background.

Just more.

There's meaty stuff here that can be expounded on, but I sense that you like to write things bluntly and like leaving with a feeling of despair left over when you're done.

Is this perhaps a story to convey they're hopelessness, and that at one point - when they were together - they HAD something live for? But now they don't?

and why is it you posted in the first month of a new year, but you hardly post during the year?

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