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THEHUMAN DIARYThere is a word for what you felt.
Intimacy

Cafuné

kah-foo-NEH

n.The act of tenderly running your fingers through someone's hair.

Brazilian PortugueseEstablished linguistic term

What the Hands Know

He had stopped talking on Thursday.

Not entirely. He still said thanks when she put the tea down, still said no, I'm fine when she asked, still produced the small necessary sounds a house needs to keep from feeling abandoned. But the talking had stopped. The thing where he came home and unpacked the day onto the kitchen table like shopping. That had stopped.

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