Beyond Goodbye: No Us Anymore
Eleanor said with a smile, her eyes clear.
"Little by little, your world will grow larger, large enough to hold far more than you ever imagined. And that pain that once felt unbearable will keep shrinking, until it becomes nothing more than a faint stroke on the canvas of your life."
At some point, Josephine's tears had stopped, and her eyes now shone with newfound clarity.
"By then, it won't be that you forgot him," Eleanor said as she looked at her. "It'll be that you've gone so far forward and gained so many things worth cherishing that you no longer need to hold on."