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To the reader, from the fool.
So this is it.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP6OVk9cUWk
The last page.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCYUIscwG1
The final breath of a story born from silence and scarred hearts.
You’ve read it.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW8sLibyL3a
Maybe lived it in echoes of your own.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaCwFKyymxM
Felt the ache between sentences,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVsKcHGDqY
or watched the wreckage unfold from a safe distance.
This is a fool’s story.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ehnfKrhqM
Mine.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuxEeb723Mg
Of the love that almost was,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUO08FFCH1g
and the goodbye that always lingered too close.
It is not a story of heroes.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsReXnxD4Lv
Nor one with villains.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdLwpB0s3yf
Just two people —32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwA4NG1GahL
one who spoke too late,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGG6149lcI
and one who could no longer wait.
It’s strange, isn’t it?32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrnfL6phdV1
How love can bloom from nothing,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVivitLmada
and still return to it.
How we spend years building bridges with words,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBAF9ZINWpS
only to watch silence burn them down in moments.
I was never perfect.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAu9flGlWvq
I said too much.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWjDcmYjF5b
Felt too much.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqGKkQxxkk
Held on too long.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoUmC2BMtuj
And when it was time to let go,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNotTOVvVOV
I let go in a way only a fool could —32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJ9UhSGHJe
quietly, completely, and with love still bleeding.
But what is love?32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKxHiiXmcs6
Is it the promises we keep?32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26D1uWYC3s
Or the ones we break to protect them?
Is it found in the staying,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCHx9VQfBLV
or in the strength it takes to walk away?
We chase answers all our lives,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡktA6AFA4AB
but maybe love isn’t meant to be answered.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ZgyGNZLrn
Maybe it’s meant to be questioned,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLThUy8chP8
again and again,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOLV2WDAcs6
until we learn who we are in the asking.
And as for life—32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLUItTJoXfY
It doesn’t give closure.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡph5GYSv7Fz
It gives time.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI1YRx8kxl7
Time to outgrow.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmF4xANr4D
Time to forgive.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoW9ioGaFc8
Time to remember without hurting.
So this is where I leave you, dear reader.
Not with a lesson.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRMG6yK0OKD
Not even with peace.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZVa0vJCASx
But with the quiet truth:
Some goodbyes are final.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kfIw7zXPo
Some aren’t.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1DXfiHAFn
But all of them shape us.
And somewhere, after this end,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWimj3c8TJ
the fool will rise again.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOLR8vE100f
A little wiser.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXbYQq8X7rD
A little emptier.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP31OengbGf
But still—32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8vXmLcbWRK
hoping.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNCqTEXHWV
Still—32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYrOXHD3t9U
loving, in the only way he knows how.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFv05f0rcOy
Even if it breaks him.
So if you've come this far, thank you.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuWMzyOUcQs
For seeing me.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Jd6bZ3P5i
For listening when I had no voice left.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOGCNpi30Dj
For walking with a fool who only knew how to feel.
And when you close this story of sorts…32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp50iaStdP6
don’t forget:
Even in ruin,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡteSGWIbHjk
we find beauty.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbHn4zLZEPc
Even in endings,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLAJ60D1q1Z
we grow.
And even a fool32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81MncurPRz
deserves to be remembered.
— The Fool,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrtx0nfBrDG
Who Loved,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7G4AcMP28
Let Go,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUZNOFcKT06
And Still Looked Back One Last Time.
