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Eco Boy vs. Yoga Girl: the Break Up. {NSFW}

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"Breakups aren't hard to do. They're inevitable. The notion that love is unchanging and fixed is an immature notion: if we want to "stay married" or together, forever, then treat one's relationship like a surfer treats the waves: with unending enthusiasm and joy. Falling down and losing one's breath is par for the course." ~ Dr. Willard Evans

It was all as if God had descended unto the f*cking amazing earth and touched the glorious waters with big turtles swimming about and the oh so pretty! strange fruits and there were eight foot effing red flowers blossoming and He had smiled a shit-eating grin at His handiwork.

You know: Hawaii.

They’d spent their first days oohing and ahhing at the natural fireworks that is Maui: the tropical beauty, the strange huge fruit and trees and flowers all of it like something out of Alice in Wonderland, the 6-foot turtles and tourist-friendly dolphins competing with jerky surfers for the next wave, brah, the 80-foot waving bamboo, the twin waterfalls, the salt-wet local-as-a-motherfucker still-trying-to-breathe fish (he was vegan, but enjoyed everything else—namely happy bright round avocados right off the tree, the crazy Star Trekky fruits, the little bananas with big taste, the farmstand tacos).

His joybank went from empty...
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