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The following weekend, I found myself back at the same beach where Ryan once proposed. I stood barefoot on the sand, wind tugging at my hair, watching the tide roll in.
No tears.
Still breathing.
My phone buzzed with a message from Chloe:
“I know you’re happy now.”
I read it twice, then deleted it without replying.
Some people never change. Some don’t even try.
I walked along the shore until the sun dipped behind the waves. And somewhere in the quiet, I said to myself, “I didn’t lose them.
I let them go.”
And that, finally, was the truth.
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