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To the reader, from the fool.
So this is it.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQPQKC0WSW
The last page.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsAgKdqPMX
The final breath of a story born from silence and scarred hearts.
You’ve read it.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnZZAb9bXmO
Maybe lived it in echoes of your own.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJ8YtdC03D
Felt the ache between sentences,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrEFjkjWOX
or watched the wreckage unfold from a safe distance.
This is a fool’s story.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANtLweQxPZ
Mine.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM23TrwmagT
Of the love that almost was,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDZpVJeWeo
and the goodbye that always lingered too close.
It is not a story of heroes.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLbXkeGnWxa
Nor one with villains.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuupJXF5Nz8
Just two people —15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNqEpCoW5h
one who spoke too late,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXiqhqNlrgw
and one who could no longer wait.
It’s strange, isn’t it?15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9CV1rPHYg8
How love can bloom from nothing,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaAJikjyVvQ
and still return to it.
How we spend years building bridges with words,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJfO0dHPwr
only to watch silence burn them down in moments.
I was never perfect.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2q5WThkiB2
I said too much.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpi5JMjeqo7
Felt too much.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu00IwXlyTa
Held on too long.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63kDuKUBLk
And when it was time to let go,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdY75EiHAko
I let go in a way only a fool could —15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqOB7QEXg4
quietly, completely, and with love still bleeding.
But what is love?15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsmYKlfqYH7
Is it the promises we keep?15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFuzpbSLYZi
Or the ones we break to protect them?
Is it found in the staying,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSkfqNF9jY3
or in the strength it takes to walk away?
We chase answers all our lives,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrAf1x6tnSi
but maybe love isn’t meant to be answered.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfVnxzkoUPb
Maybe it’s meant to be questioned,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3WUe7s8Ih
again and again,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX4fULVMdW4
until we learn who we are in the asking.
And as for life—15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0kYuunAQCW
It doesn’t give closure.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDdVo1up0qV
It gives time.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wHFfzgosD
Time to outgrow.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ptuTAiHki
Time to forgive.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyY04tS4IvW
Time to remember without hurting.
So this is where I leave you, dear reader.
Not with a lesson.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2QZJKMxbSw
Not even with peace.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVCwLNRNit
But with the quiet truth:
Some goodbyes are final.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2wc6Wr3z38
Some aren’t.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo8GyR3mxoo
But all of them shape us.
And somewhere, after this end,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAgBH8h7NKp
the fool will rise again.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvhcsYx2cg5
A little wiser.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHIQJIvjxY
A little emptier.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFp555B8yc3
But still—15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcwbGB6IPkT
hoping.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVeB6dN7RP
Still—15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUQYiSszbtA
loving, in the only way he knows how.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDipE7sftJ
Even if it breaks him.
So if you've come this far, thank you.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡihIddYN0qG
For seeing me.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqBckJXjr8
For listening when I had no voice left.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYdTuosiCG3
For walking with a fool who only knew how to feel.
And when you close this story of sorts…15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdVjI4K7Ar
don’t forget:
Even in ruin,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdjnTcNmxB
we find beauty.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcoPTB2jwwS
Even in endings,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZnclAzYbT
we grow.
And even a fool15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtLX2RJvJjh
deserves to be remembered.
— The Fool,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyB1iIA71zr
Who Loved,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwKqNsvM9Xy
Let Go,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNN5Rk3KysF
And Still Looked Back One Last Time.
