until the end

i haven't stopped thinking about the joy that was the bruins nhl outdoors and it turned into this

Aubrey Plaza as Riley Bennett

a moment in time  from AD 120 to 2020 

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And then you open the first chest and find the letters. You find only letters, all with your name on and you weren't going to read them, but the second chest is full of letters, too, and the third, and...

Yusuf wrote you. Nicolò wrote you.

Andromache wrote you and that's... that's just... Andromache, who got into arguments with Yusuf over the superiority of oral tradition and good memory. Who thought writing was a newfangled passing fad, no, really, she means it. Andromache who held any writing instrument like she held a knife, only she was much more at ease and graceful with the knife.

Andromache who complained at length about all the better things she could be doing rather than writing. Andromache who signed with an X every time she could get away with it and suddenly you hear Yusuf’s teasing voice in your head telling her that she could have at least used her initials, at least an A, it's not harder than an X.

Andromache wrote you. More letters than the other two Yusuf and Nicolò combined and they wrote you a lot.

So you take them all out of their chests and they make a stack that's taller than you - possibly taller than the Frenchman, too - and they weren't exactly in order before and now you made it worse but you don't care, you keep jumping from one letter to the next to the next...

It's 500 years worth of I love yous, I miss yous, I'm thinking of yous and remember whens. It's 500 years worth of apologies.

You are still angry, of course you are, but... it's different. Seeing this. Knowing you were not forgotten.

How do we rewrite the stars? Say you were made to be mine? Nothing can keep us apart ‘Cause you are the one I was meant to find

and there’s nothing like a mad woman (what a shame she went mad) no one likes a mad woman (you made her like that)

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