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To the reader, from the fool.
So this is it.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgEKcmcJYg
The last page.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmGl6tXzSe
The final breath of a story born from silence and scarred hearts.
You’ve read it.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkPp5hrpkRA
Maybe lived it in echoes of your own.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMmD09Zp86q
Felt the ache between sentences,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0yFy8o4Ug4
or watched the wreckage unfold from a safe distance.
This is a fool’s story.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ZW05ZJOcX
Mine.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE9pCVN7Dow
Of the love that almost was,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8VO5KEJsZ
and the goodbye that always lingered too close.
It is not a story of heroes.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2aEQ7G1z8
Nor one with villains.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnSL55QgzDm
Just two people —76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFZMkkUhDD2
one who spoke too late,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb8BHQFmK5t
and one who could no longer wait.
It’s strange, isn’t it?76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxriK3Aezr
How love can bloom from nothing,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xqvCkI6mA
and still return to it.
How we spend years building bridges with words,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwPfrkCYOmN
only to watch silence burn them down in moments.
I was never perfect.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZX11EJcUd6
I said too much.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFiAuZl02W
Felt too much.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfjTemRK9VB
Held on too long.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnkPWIvMrGq
And when it was time to let go,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdMUlGT9CrS
I let go in a way only a fool could —76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LmhyV0Z2Q
quietly, completely, and with love still bleeding.
But what is love?76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡww27PXt19V
Is it the promises we keep?76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzs4wpgLTHk
Or the ones we break to protect them?
Is it found in the staying,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAYhcicQxHE
or in the strength it takes to walk away?
We chase answers all our lives,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJbHhHwC2f
but maybe love isn’t meant to be answered.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOP3vFkNWE
Maybe it’s meant to be questioned,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVEG2it0pPz
again and again,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPYNt4VaBq3
until we learn who we are in the asking.
And as for life—76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPhdnWA9RHS
It doesn’t give closure.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr5taAAIk1C
It gives time.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ1g1xQs6K6
Time to outgrow.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIXVC50b7SJ
Time to forgive.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLnxjB53C4v
Time to remember without hurting.
So this is where I leave you, dear reader.
Not with a lesson.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0eOxjTUk7X
Not even with peace.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgdPG0wfOjB
But with the quiet truth:
Some goodbyes are final.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRwR0Gr9pcc
Some aren’t.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDLKZ87hem
But all of them shape us.
And somewhere, after this end,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR7SfLD7hzS
the fool will rise again.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡswlL7pKb2k
A little wiser.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqiwDMPG7Kb
A little emptier.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMjD3uwbYZc
But still—76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ38I1Xeo0bN
hoping.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMeWKsfVgLE
Still—76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwahlxYyCi
loving, in the only way he knows how.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MCtlJoy4K
Even if it breaks him.
So if you've come this far, thank you.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJqtcmRQeMo
For seeing me.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTY48VTfh3
For listening when I had no voice left.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3s07hBpNa
For walking with a fool who only knew how to feel.
And when you close this story of sorts…76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTHbet9nBiK
don’t forget:
Even in ruin,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMVv2dvETd1
we find beauty.76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1DZL4TwzJz
Even in endings,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡalle1zq5eV
we grow.
And even a fool76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡriSBUKAhnN
deserves to be remembered.
— The Fool,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4jpTOlWWH
Who Loved,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1ikgDdT6x
Let Go,76Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0bgsbi6m7d
And Still Looked Back One Last Time.
