Dedication
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For the ones who stayed a little longer
than they should have…
and for the ones
who learned how to leave.
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Seventeen was the year everything felt permanent. The year love was easy, confessions were reckless, and forever didn’t seem like a question. But some things don’t break all at once. They fade—in missed chances, in words left unsaid, in the silence that slowly grows between two people who once meant everything to each other. Years later, when paths cross again, it isn’t the same. She isn’t waiting. He isn’t ready. And what they had still lingers… in memories that refuse to stay in the past. Because not every love story is meant to last. Some are meant to change you. Some are meant to stay with you. And some… are meant to teach you how to let go. EDWARD WATSON & LILANA JANE CARTER
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For the ones who stayed a little longer
than they should have…
and for the ones
who learned how to leave.