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To the reader, from the fool.
So this is it.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS3K1MdU4F8
The last page.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT7eWM63UB8
The final breath of a story born from silence and scarred hearts.
You’ve read it.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgHr3nF2i4L
Maybe lived it in echoes of your own.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuKyKZofWPT
Felt the ache between sentences,77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEIWYxKEwht
or watched the wreckage unfold from a safe distance.
This is a fool’s story.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFDlhDqwQZ
Mine.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5RglIeR0al
Of the love that almost was,77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ04soSJmdwV
and the goodbye that always lingered too close.
It is not a story of heroes.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTqnO7PotUU
Nor one with villains.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAl2MryFmRG
Just two people —77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjK7TcOkUj3
one who spoke too late,77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYQbhZY4HI2
and one who could no longer wait.
It’s strange, isn’t it?77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRxS4EDoizY
How love can bloom from nothing,77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡETAfpXK98g
and still return to it.
How we spend years building bridges with words,77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfYmid0C9rb
only to watch silence burn them down in moments.
I was never perfect.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwDKOjX8Uk
I said too much.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoLsfGfsFlr
Felt too much.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJQtG50lso
Held on too long.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFeCb2ExPiA
And when it was time to let go,77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd1jhFWtLls
I let go in a way only a fool could —77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAAs5LeBFXg
quietly, completely, and with love still bleeding.
But what is love?77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnZnhEVqTip
Is it the promises we keep?77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjvMDfcS9a
Or the ones we break to protect them?
Is it found in the staying,77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6av12il0qd
or in the strength it takes to walk away?
We chase answers all our lives,77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTTsq6Eo49
but maybe love isn’t meant to be answered.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7i83z4puG9
Maybe it’s meant to be questioned,77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYxB2tOzKbu
again and again,77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrTqMilBFkF
until we learn who we are in the asking.
And as for life—77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5DxkA35aSh
It doesn’t give closure.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu85KJ6guNM
It gives time.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9KrebrefO
Time to outgrow.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeyETogKcV9
Time to forgive.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPasvD5myQ
Time to remember without hurting.
So this is where I leave you, dear reader.
Not with a lesson.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeogusdFds4
Not even with peace.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4dHWX9PygR
But with the quiet truth:
Some goodbyes are final.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9tdE0Wka6
Some aren’t.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnasnHPvPiR
But all of them shape us.
And somewhere, after this end,77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj2gkpffuKe
the fool will rise again.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrE7bJ71to
A little wiser.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLvi1aAKldr
A little emptier.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9c9EDCdRCo
But still—77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZxNqYlOWy6
hoping.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXuDJTmgX7M
Still—77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSFMPub12Y
loving, in the only way he knows how.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFVNHF1UKDW
Even if it breaks him.
So if you've come this far, thank you.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPbdx4cLaPv
For seeing me.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qmLkkWGeS
For listening when I had no voice left.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwpGymHJiwx
For walking with a fool who only knew how to feel.
And when you close this story of sorts…77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiHX6gjgeg9
don’t forget:
Even in ruin,77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ddFnxCkLQ
we find beauty.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDS0jNz9rGn
Even in endings,77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSAUsDaNdvL
we grow.
And even a fool77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDQEWfe0W0
deserves to be remembered.
— The Fool,77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8JMCO5Wyy
Who Loved,77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZFRZafsKIS
Let Go,77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpCq4BPb0NZ
And Still Looked Back One Last Time.
