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All is fair in love and war but darling this is both

All is fair in love and war but darling this is both

Text and photographs by Nicole Galvin

Published on the Enjoy Blog , 15 March, 2023

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Nicole Galvin, from All is fair in love and war but darling this is both, 2016 - present, photo series.

I never know how to write about us, do you?  

For some reason writing about us always feels wrong. Like writing an obituary for someone who’s still alive. Like maybe it’s tempting fate. You’ve always told me just to start from the beginning, and that the rest will work itself out from there, but that’s more easily said than done. Because how do you know where the beginning of something is, when you’re still at the beginning of it? For me at least, that sort of clarity comes much later, usually long after its ended.

But if experience has taught me anything it is that time is cyclical, and that words like ‘beginning’ and ‘end’ are all just synonyms for the same sort of feeling. Maybe that’s where we start then; the end of the beginning and the beginning of everything else, and then, eventually, the end.

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