He told me that once, in the war, he’d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just lying there in agony. The soldier had looked up at Sergeant Leonard, and even though they didn’t speak the same language, they understood each other with just a look. The German lying on the ground; the American standing over him. He put a bullet in the soldier’s head. He didn’t do it with anger, as an enemy, but as a fellow man, one soldier helping another.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.

Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.

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But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.