We grieve things in this world, some more than others. We grieve when a cloudy sky covers the stars we have longed to see. We grieve alone on the bathroom floor, having lost an opportunity that meant everything and more. We grieve a love that changed us the moment it ended. We grieve the things that change us and the memories that break us. We grieve people we’ve never met and the moments we were never given. But there is a grief that makes me ache in a way I cannot always explain, and that is the grief of watching someone who deserves every beautiful thing in this world but who does
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