Dear Final Pages I Refused to Turn,
I kept re-reading you.65Please respect copyright.PENANAqgCh7N0JW7
As if going back would give me65Please respect copyright.PENANAmrDmE1xDmU
a different outcome.65Please respect copyright.PENANAVOEzkMpOzF
As if holding on tighter65Please respect copyright.PENANAxluBbXnGOH
could undo the unraveling.
But no amount of effort65Please respect copyright.PENANARIZdqBwW6l
can rewrite a story that was already meant to end.
And that's okay.
Some stories aren't meant to be lifelong.65Please respect copyright.PENANAyg25sYWNwm
Some people are meant to be chapters,65Please respect copyright.PENANAbKJdyEN6Bl
not the whole book.
It took me a long time to stop blaming myself65Please respect copyright.PENANAvJyfdYiyqH
for what didn't last.65Please respect copyright.PENANAaSMCq7Lp8Y
To stop calling myself "too much"65Please respect copyright.PENANA5jpvrY1pKp
or "not enough."
Now, I see that letting go65Please respect copyright.PENANAEBVrPMAQzu
isn't failure.65Please respect copyright.PENANAtdJ9AngI6B
It's faith.65Please respect copyright.PENANAOY1pyYjwhJ
In what's ahead.65Please respect copyright.PENANAjRM4GBKL2G
In who I'm becoming.
So to the endings I tried to revise—65Please respect copyright.PENANAw8G16Wov0n
I release you now.65Please respect copyright.PENANAA2A7wV7RmA
I trust the story will continue,65Please respect copyright.PENANAXdgYU4yjpo
even if you're no longer in it.
With quiet gratitude,65Please respect copyright.PENANA5QV4v3LYbr
—The Author of a New Beginning
65Please respect copyright.PENANANY9zLkgO7V