Aya Elsayed

you never showed up, and now, after looking at the newspapers, i understand why. i don't imagine you will recieve this letter but i nonetheless must send it. arthur. oh, arthur. i was just starting to dream the silliest and softest of dreams. i miss you, and i will always miss you, but i cannot live like that, and it seems you cannot live any other way.

when i'm with you, the world makes sense, but when we are apart, i see clearly that your world is not a world from which one can escape. i'm so sorry, for everything, for everything long ago and for starting up that business again. there's a good man within you, arthur, but he is wrestling with a giant. and the giant wins, time and time again. you've broken my heart, again, and i fear i have broken yours.

for that, i will never forgive myself but you must let me go now. i enclose a ring you gave me many years ago, when we were both young, not because i don't like it, but because i care for it far too much and it reminds me too much of you. i hope, one day, you will find some people in love who can use this, for it kept me thinking of you all these years, and i hope by returning it to you i can finally be free.

goodbye,

Warning: Potential spoilers

Title: The Adults are Talking

Editor: takara

Song: The Adults are Talking

Artist: The Strokes

Anime: Welcome to the NHK

Haibane Renmei art by Yoshitoshi ABe

From Guri No Machi, Haibane No Niwa De

•Wake up at 4 am

•go for a run

•take a shower

•change your sheets

•do your laundry

•study for four hours straight

•follow a cat through the neighborhood

•get the groceries for one or two meals

•read a book in silence

•call an old friend

•take a train to the next town

•watch people from afar

•go to dinner alone

•sit on your couch and listen to a full album

•have a cup of coffee

•sit on your balcony at night

•draw/paint

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