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“Grief takes the shortest path it can find,” he said. “And the shortest path is at each other. Let it go. It won’t help us now.”
“Have you ever missed a person even while they’re still next to you? Like you’re waiting for their absence someday, so you try desperately to hang on to the moment, so much so that you can barely exist in the present with them?”
She had spent her entire life missing people who were still beside her.
“Winter, I don’t understand how you can live with an open heart. Everyone hurts you. Why don’t you protect yourself better? Put up walls?” “What if protecting yourself kills you in the end?”
“None of this makes any sense. Why would the US want their president dead?” “To start a war,” she replied. The clarity hurt her heart. “Why would the US want to start a war?” “You think we don’t start wars every other year?”
