Sometimes things don’t work out the way we hoped, despite our best intentions. And when they go pear-shaped, you have to let them. You can’t keep holding on, trying to redo the past and stop the bad things from happening. They happened, and you can’t change that. You can’t keep holding on to the vision of the future you imagined you’d have, the way you thought things would turn out. You have to let the present be what it is—broken, flawed, painful, but real.” I stared at her, ingesting her words slowly. “I don’t know how to do that,” I admitted. “If I let go, everything will fall to pieces. I
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