Goodbye.

I’d said the word a million times over the course of my lifetime. Left those behind that betrayed me, rejected me, those that I loved, those that I hated….but somehow, this time felt different. This was an ending that I couldn’t justify, no matter how many times I teased out the wreckage of the present in my own mind.

Our time together was short, but when you know, you know, don’t you?

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