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To the reader, from the fool.
So this is it.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgkwZY1TRQj
The last page.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfZYAghLuO
The final breath of a story born from silence and scarred hearts.
You’ve read it.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR82lNxq6Up
Maybe lived it in echoes of your own.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVRxEbezLx
Felt the ache between sentences,35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAN7bzSNsI8
or watched the wreckage unfold from a safe distance.
This is a fool’s story.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeLGNngZg1R
Mine.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNoO9F4HMPJ
Of the love that almost was,35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHDMJaHt13
and the goodbye that always lingered too close.
It is not a story of heroes.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Lg6b7lJix
Nor one with villains.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMpJGkuanb
Just two people —35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWEq7hx3RX
one who spoke too late,35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsOdkKrCGj
and one who could no longer wait.
It’s strange, isn’t it?35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXKzRT051O
How love can bloom from nothing,35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVt6o7peY3N
and still return to it.
How we spend years building bridges with words,35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡThNwqM87LE
only to watch silence burn them down in moments.
I was never perfect.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi2N18vt5K2
I said too much.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6oDRiSjIht
Felt too much.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbXqAtE1FVw
Held on too long.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn6kQBrVP3D
And when it was time to let go,35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzwAWMj9h3
I let go in a way only a fool could —35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6gmC8BZkSi
quietly, completely, and with love still bleeding.
But what is love?35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4TlXFavoJ1
Is it the promises we keep?35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKcuLd6Rd2
Or the ones we break to protect them?
Is it found in the staying,35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuakOi3Aa2I
or in the strength it takes to walk away?
We chase answers all our lives,35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7KEb1Qh8mL
but maybe love isn’t meant to be answered.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYxg21TUlWc
Maybe it’s meant to be questioned,35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC8v9VDk1jC
again and again,35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2n4iNdmsYc
until we learn who we are in the asking.
And as for life—35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡweoCD92Icj
It doesn’t give closure.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Sot389zfE
It gives time.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeAqbaQQX6J
Time to outgrow.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgvLyKehtrS
Time to forgive.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQccpD3wRgU
Time to remember without hurting.
So this is where I leave you, dear reader.
Not with a lesson.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6NEszM4JEk
Not even with peace.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHDOpp9XUN
But with the quiet truth:
Some goodbyes are final.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡunP6KK0iCc
Some aren’t.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrAcD4bzbkf
But all of them shape us.
And somewhere, after this end,35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCBz4RfbhUB
the fool will rise again.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09f9mXqd9w
A little wiser.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVnp8qImb4y
A little emptier.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6NdGa1WlH
But still—35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVF8in4036U
hoping.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2VQfSBawlp
Still—35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD134U31i1G
loving, in the only way he knows how.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡauUIo65JKv
Even if it breaks him.
So if you've come this far, thank you.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTDkNpisqf
For seeing me.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovJV41AKSW
For listening when I had no voice left.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2fXbQjakvk
For walking with a fool who only knew how to feel.
And when you close this story of sorts…35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfA9IlPPZYi
don’t forget:
Even in ruin,35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTcVabSozQL
we find beauty.35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ48bjnA1dxf
Even in endings,35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡicsRVsC1Tc
we grow.
And even a fool35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW16dP4w7qV
deserves to be remembered.
— The Fool,35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06SDNnMg02
Who Loved,35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7BdqIP0qIv
Let Go,35Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLDGLsplvBB
And Still Looked Back One Last Time.
