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"The way you talk about her, the way you're honoring her by taking this trip. Hell, the way you made the decision to just go and allowed me and Granddad to tag along. We're getting to create memories together while you're still grieving the
fact that you don't have any memories left to make. You don't fucking know, Noelle, the scope of what you've done."

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I feel exorcised and electrified. Not fixed, but better. Like maybe I'm not the sum of my mistakes, my fail-ures, my fears. Like maybe it's not too late to fight for what I want, if I can admit it to myself. That it's okay to have hope, to try, even if it doesn't turn out the way I expect.

Somehow needed this

“You were never my nemesis. You were my…” I hate how I hold my breath. “My motivation.”

Oh this admission 🤭

I hold my breath, my heart racing, I need this to work, for so many reasons all tangled up together. Finally, he says, “I have a better idea. Like I said, you can take the map. But I’d like you to take me, too.”

🥹 love this plan

In this picture, she's wearing my best-day smile. I know, deep in my bones, that when this picture was taken, she was happy. It's the power of photography. To capture it and let it live past the subject's lifetime. To allow someone to look at it years later and smile along with them.