Normalizing “I Love You”

Tracy Lunquist
4 min readMar 3, 2020

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If you love somebody, tell them so.

I come from an odd couple of parents. My mom’s family is warm, fun, sometimes boisterous, always laughing, and super cuddly. You can count on mountains of food and tons of hugs from these lovely people. My dad’s family is stereotypical “old money” — reserved, a bit stiff, formal, refined, and whatever the complete opposite of “demonstrative” is. If you bust through their barriers and…

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Tracy Lunquist

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