Mira Regret's Her Heartless Billionaire Ex
The seventeen-year-old version is not recoverable.
What is recoverable is the thirty-one-year-old version: standing in a garden, hand in hand, the letter read and received and understood, the sealed thing open at last.
The morning I delivered the letter, I went home and sat on the edge of my bed and said goodbye to the good things, one by one, the way I have described before. I did not know then that goodbye did not have to be permanent. That some things, said goodbye to, simply wait.
I know now.