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“You’re telling me to not think. All I do is think. All the time. I think so much, I’m on medication and I see a shrink every Wednesday. I can’t not think, Caroline.”
“Mistakes. Trial and error. Same thing. Mistakes are how we learned to walk and run and that hot things burn when you touch them. You’ve made mistakes all your life and you’re going to keep making them.”
“The trick is to recognize your mistakes, take what you need from them, and move on.”
“I can’t move on.” “You can’t beat yourse...
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“Hey,” Sue says, resting her elbows on her knees. “Look at me. You’re a good person who made a mistake.” That makes me cry even harder. “Did you learn something?” I hide my face behind my hand, nodding fast.
“Then this particular mistake has done its job. Forgive yourself and move on,
It takes effort, but I sit up straight and look right at her. “Every last word.”
I like to know where I stand with people, and I figure I owe them the same courtesy.
“Well, if she looked like a mime, it makes perfect sense that she’s not speaking to you,”
These walls heard me when no one else could. They gave my words a home, kept them safe. Cheered, cried, listened. Changed my life for the better. It wasn’t enough.
But they heard every last word.
Feeling all the pain of letting them go. And knowing I did the right thing.
