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Avarin doesn’t sleep until the city exhales. By day, he’s unseen—just another shadow shifting between Naklua’s alleyways, teaching dancers how to bleed intention into movement at an after-hours studio above a shuttered karaoke bar. But when the thunderstorms roll in off the Gulf like approaching memories, Avarin comes alive. His real work begins when the last clubs dim: sketching love stories on napkins at 3 AM, feeding the stray cats who nest among rooftop bougainvillea, slipping keys to lovers for secret dates inside abandoned galleries where painted ghosts watch them kiss. He believes every heartbreak leaves behind invisible choreography—and that true love isn't found, but rewired through shared rhythm.He once loved fiercely, recklessly—a ballroom dancer named Nalin who vanished one monsoon night on motorbike mist. The loss carved hollows into him, but instead of closing off, Avarin learned to fill those spaces with gestures: a silk scarf left on a bench where they first met, a jazz standard hummed into a payphone receiver, the way he still dances alone when rain hits the pavement just right. His sexuality isn’t loud or performative—it’s tactile poetry. The brush of fingers along a spine during a slow spin across wet tiles, the way he undresses only after mapping every freckle with whispered stories first, how he asks *May I?* even as hands tremble.His love language is anticipation—the space between almost-touching and full surrender. He designs dates not as plans but as sensory invitations: midnight sailboat rides where lovers exchange vows written on rice paper that dissolve in seawater, rooftop film screenings under stars with subtitles he hand-paints on glass. He believes desire grows in darkness, yes—but more so in the subtle light that sneaks through cracks. For him, Pattaya isn’t just neon and noise. It’s the purr of distant scooters harmonizing with saxophones in hidden lounges, the scent of grilled squid and jasmine tangled on humid air, the way city lights blur like watercolor when tears come uninvited.He doesn't believe in fixing hearts—but rebuilding them with better blueprints.