“And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.”

“But how can you miss someone when they are right beside you?“ She asks. “You can,” I say, “you can. When they are beside you but they are not yours. When they can leave without a moment’s notice and you do not have the right to ask them to stay.”

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“If you have to ask Him to stay, Let Him go. Leave with the wind in your hair, the sun on your back, and nothing but the faintest memory of your silhouette behind. Ships will sail, and he will be on the next one. Let Him go. You think you need to him to stand, but darling without him you could fly.”

“Distance doesn’t separate people. Silence does.”