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To the reader, from the fool.
So this is it.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2wuHQ5Hql9
The last page.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDxDHjz64bY
The final breath of a story born from silence and scarred hearts.
You’ve read it.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhFbKwc4uh
Maybe lived it in echoes of your own.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYw5GSj6KQ
Felt the ache between sentences,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1nuu9bmf0o
or watched the wreckage unfold from a safe distance.
This is a fool’s story.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4GocdD6yv6
Mine.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQCTu3t9X0
Of the love that almost was,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8XAhtmRpoP
and the goodbye that always lingered too close.
It is not a story of heroes.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Mh0u6Q0mW
Nor one with villains.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzR4SmrhZJV
Just two people —37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhnQBOJVbi
one who spoke too late,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr1BjmVCFw4
and one who could no longer wait.
It’s strange, isn’t it?37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2yQQlVwPlF
How love can bloom from nothing,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPt7lkLP0Hz
and still return to it.
How we spend years building bridges with words,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwHHV8E0Kx6
only to watch silence burn them down in moments.
I was never perfect.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9LwxmT9Ll
I said too much.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gFCOa11CA
Felt too much.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSs3BqSfAif
Held on too long.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSNgUq91U40
And when it was time to let go,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxRQkTpRvo
I let go in a way only a fool could —37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ofXAbujNk
quietly, completely, and with love still bleeding.
But what is love?37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1iYeFjeCo8
Is it the promises we keep?37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBpL1eIBMP5
Or the ones we break to protect them?
Is it found in the staying,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeHPSFu6p89
or in the strength it takes to walk away?
We chase answers all our lives,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuLiYBYfpQ4
but maybe love isn’t meant to be answered.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZWmqSL4Tw3
Maybe it’s meant to be questioned,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv77KRjhvKp
again and again,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1FSeiY4Fg
until we learn who we are in the asking.
And as for life—37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGq7Of2c8Z
It doesn’t give closure.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdw6A7uUdEx
It gives time.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA6AhTsDwiq
Time to outgrow.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkeZcRR18FQ
Time to forgive.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRbOeWO4Oaw
Time to remember without hurting.
So this is where I leave you, dear reader.
Not with a lesson.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDFkbuobquz
Not even with peace.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ68A9YakNaZ
But with the quiet truth:
Some goodbyes are final.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYoW2K0P0QU
Some aren’t.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFFx0W2cJHs
But all of them shape us.
And somewhere, after this end,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Cu1CfKi6j
the fool will rise again.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsWNp3Ikk8
A little wiser.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgHguiSHyh
A little emptier.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQxGdAjMBy
But still—37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfIWMsEDRPK
hoping.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3VDrVef34
Still—37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiKJv6toQ3
loving, in the only way he knows how.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq06toVdAUC
Even if it breaks him.
So if you've come this far, thank you.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQZY7268OJ
For seeing me.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsc9aPNNgz
For listening when I had no voice left.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jBYgANP5c
For walking with a fool who only knew how to feel.
And when you close this story of sorts…37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyFDDgwP43C
don’t forget:
Even in ruin,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8r9P5Y1CVc
we find beauty.37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4AhMTi5DUR
Even in endings,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJn1w9XcLy4
we grow.
And even a fool37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhdGA6Qwve
deserves to be remembered.
— The Fool,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrU9XKyshuY
Who Loved,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNT2f3dzRh4
Let Go,37Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtEimDX1Iy
And Still Looked Back One Last Time.
