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My dear Arthur,
you never showed up. and now after looking at the newspapers i understand why, i don’t imagine you’ll receive this letter but i, nonetheless, must send it. Arthur, oh, arthur. i was just starting the 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 for which that 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 wresting with a giant, and the giant wins, time and again. you’ve broken my heart, again, and i fear i have broken yours, and for that i will never forgive myself. but you must let me go now, i will close the ring that 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, because 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 for all these years. and i hope that i returned it to you, i can finally be free.
goodbye,
mary.
2026-07-22 23:26:35