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To the reader, from the fool.
So this is it.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt9pEGBZEge
The last page.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlKYrpv98gg
The final breath of a story born from silence and scarred hearts.
You’ve read it.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVNM2596Li
Maybe lived it in echoes of your own.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BJAzx739m
Felt the ache between sentences,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5tAcoO4efX
or watched the wreckage unfold from a safe distance.
This is a fool’s story.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡochqMUb0tY
Mine.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNczDQAGxr9
Of the love that almost was,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqZVTw4SZeI
and the goodbye that always lingered too close.
It is not a story of heroes.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLvpHZmSqGS
Nor one with villains.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz3STR6QT5M
Just two people —23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQYqylbdEiw
one who spoke too late,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRo9HDnrFG6
and one who could no longer wait.
It’s strange, isn’t it?23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0ASfHHiTQ
How love can bloom from nothing,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDu89HL6ppe
and still return to it.
How we spend years building bridges with words,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1MGlYHg1cj
only to watch silence burn them down in moments.
I was never perfect.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMRpI7MYdhZ
I said too much.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxok5UuxfwW
Felt too much.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7GJiwHyyKm
Held on too long.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuei5JryKjJ
And when it was time to let go,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQdTV80YHm4
I let go in a way only a fool could —23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq1YTh1DhRl
quietly, completely, and with love still bleeding.
But what is love?23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwjSV1P8Q3Y
Is it the promises we keep?23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlBEtETmNDq
Or the ones we break to protect them?
Is it found in the staying,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF84HCLWdJe
or in the strength it takes to walk away?
We chase answers all our lives,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGdDJ7FBFV
but maybe love isn’t meant to be answered.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIlkcb4Mzcs
Maybe it’s meant to be questioned,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzIOWNavXmi
again and again,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtCR60GQCRc
until we learn who we are in the asking.
And as for life—23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZ5Ryl56oi
It doesn’t give closure.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9goaZGLBrG
It gives time.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ7rER3cbDp
Time to outgrow.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN8EssEN5kv
Time to forgive.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfm99S2c9ld
Time to remember without hurting.
So this is where I leave you, dear reader.
Not with a lesson.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaI7Nom0GaS
Not even with peace.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5SeufjezF
But with the quiet truth:
Some goodbyes are final.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGlJrdopaqH
Some aren’t.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ZLLlZmosW
But all of them shape us.
And somewhere, after this end,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSFiTneav3S
the fool will rise again.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBrM6xMdXCg
A little wiser.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJ9HLf5SKm
A little emptier.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRmp6hDLByI
But still—23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9uotq7vFvc
hoping.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2VTvRkxIC
Still—23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRwYiZ7KltM
loving, in the only way he knows how.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZixt2AihAs
Even if it breaks him.
So if you've come this far, thank you.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFQgDNu4h9
For seeing me.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnboIratDut
For listening when I had no voice left.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHecg1y6W3
For walking with a fool who only knew how to feel.
And when you close this story of sorts…23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4B4ODkfQEB
don’t forget:
Even in ruin,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoH86YMK37D
we find beauty.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrcWQmjIgzP
Even in endings,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Ud9qCm4U5
we grow.
And even a fool23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ33gRYK0yAk
deserves to be remembered.
— The Fool,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0x1gjdfbgE
Who Loved,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofR6XF91PB
Let Go,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6uY8ISmjgP
And Still Looked Back One Last Time.
