Emotional scars take longer to heal than physical scars. Truthfully, some never heal at all. Given enough time, physical scars will pull together, gradually fuse along the edges, create a nice smooth symmetrical zipper of off-colored flesh, and remain that way for perpetuity. Emotional scars, on the other hand, fester and roil and never want to congeal; at times it may seem as though their various components have settled their internal disputes and reached some sort of shaky compromise, yet those same bed partners frequently resume hostilities and pull apart at the first hint of affective turmoil. Emotional scars live on forever as volatile, pulsating, stricken entities minus any real recipe for permanent reconciliation. Physical scars live on forever too, as, well……well, merely as routine physical interruptions on otherwise homogenous skin.
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