⸻Chapter Four: Echoes Between UsThe next morning, Elena woke before the sun.The house was still. Too still. It was the kind of silence that came after grief, after loss, when the world hadn’t caught up with the fact that someone was gone. Her father’s absence hung in the walls like a shadow.She made her way downstairs barefoot, the wooden steps cold against her skin. In the kitchen, a box of old mail sat on the table, delivered after his death by a neighbor who thought she might want it. Most of it was junk.But one envelope stood out.It was addressed to her in her father’s handwriting—stiff and uneven from years of arthritis. She stared at it for several seconds, hesitant to touch it.Finally, she opened it.Elena,If you’re reading this, I’m gone. I never knew how to be soft with you, and for that, I’m sorry. Your mother leaving broke something in me, but that was never your fault. I know I never said it, but I was proud of you. For leaving. For surviving.Don’t waste your life
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