“I’d never expect you to forgive me for what I did, and I hope you don’t because I don’t deserve it. But I am sorry for how I treated you after we met, and I’m sorry for leading you on before that. I had every intention of ending things after you told me about your thirty-year plan, but then I made up excuses for why I wasn’t ready to let you go. Reasons like I was bored or entertained or lonely. “I wanted you to tell me why you loved bees enough to create a garden for them or what made you want to buy a cottage versus some big house. I wanted to know you, and in the process I realized I could
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