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To the reader, from the fool.
So this is it.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnLWPxMiX1v
The last page.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ72ZpDp3LSi
The final breath of a story born from silence and scarred hearts.
You’ve read it.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNGaBJG5Zjb
Maybe lived it in echoes of your own.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixXMjlB32h
Felt the ache between sentences,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEROgbFQiEO
or watched the wreckage unfold from a safe distance.
This is a fool’s story.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxlMQ1L63Z4
Mine.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsZUAzVbamZ
Of the love that almost was,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4xTVJjKHXj
and the goodbye that always lingered too close.
It is not a story of heroes.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPgfG9YDfBK
Nor one with villains.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9TlaFeYuCa
Just two people —51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJTwNQ8dAR4
one who spoke too late,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLB01tDnkod
and one who could no longer wait.
It’s strange, isn’t it?51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLoZLupUwbc
How love can bloom from nothing,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbNDl0b5JRL
and still return to it.
How we spend years building bridges with words,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡELqYC4sgc4
only to watch silence burn them down in moments.
I was never perfect.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0QkfPKhvH
I said too much.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdeJYteXEx
Felt too much.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Z28xGiObw
Held on too long.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqEl9nEpBrj
And when it was time to let go,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD3Ueld3TK0
I let go in a way only a fool could —51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3NcUPIBpOe
quietly, completely, and with love still bleeding.
But what is love?51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpfqkATez7
Is it the promises we keep?51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdtFkgVoVL
Or the ones we break to protect them?
Is it found in the staying,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6LHSY7F1B
or in the strength it takes to walk away?
We chase answers all our lives,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEUW1ZjTdhl
but maybe love isn’t meant to be answered.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5u26neqrqM
Maybe it’s meant to be questioned,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx27B0flTo8
again and again,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuTLGolwMH9
until we learn who we are in the asking.
And as for life—51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxll4ogIziL
It doesn’t give closure.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbhFWX4UYl
It gives time.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqbHZVtBu8J
Time to outgrow.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6GIiFzbo3h
Time to forgive.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWF3leNezEJ
Time to remember without hurting.
So this is where I leave you, dear reader.
Not with a lesson.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsbf2VSrmeh
Not even with peace.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2txgQnZy08
But with the quiet truth:
Some goodbyes are final.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQqe1yPjAzi
Some aren’t.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe0Bhe6cHvd
But all of them shape us.
And somewhere, after this end,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4dpH3O9HgD
the fool will rise again.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTGSDbVjbEO
A little wiser.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHjDw8IWK99
A little emptier.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5hE8N9ZxMW
But still—51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZMXuXtkPEp
hoping.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPUtIGRyIxv
Still—51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡua96lYUgyA
loving, in the only way he knows how.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EME1ACeFq
Even if it breaks him.
So if you've come this far, thank you.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4FauY5lzhk
For seeing me.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuwxOq2KXN
For listening when I had no voice left.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡewXjw4aw4b
For walking with a fool who only knew how to feel.
And when you close this story of sorts…51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVPpA3R7BC5
don’t forget:
Even in ruin,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5i3izYgrsS
we find beauty.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2VXlIrG3bw
Even in endings,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJ36O5Jb9W
we grow.
And even a fool51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Ww5NlVxHc
deserves to be remembered.
— The Fool,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡul3wHRfYPM
Who Loved,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9iPWwObnjO
Let Go,51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv6Es2l7jdC
And Still Looked Back One Last Time.
