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"Hey, you guys Sorry I haven’t visited Truth is I was trying my best to run from you, because I didn’t kno to live without you I abandoned you and went searching for a replacement For soine not having a fa in a world where you both weren’t I don’t kno to do this without you I don’t kno to exist…so just telllost I don’t think I can do this without you" My heart pounded againstmyself to feel the loss of Jamie and Charlie They were my world Charlie was my heart, and Ja away fro their memory the way they deserved "Please wake er than I think I a anyan to set My arms rapped aroundat the words on the stones Missing people,the ones who knew you better than you knew yourself left emptiness inside of you I tried to fill that emptiness, but maybe it was supposed to be left hollow inside my heart

Each day, I felt the hurt, the uessed that was the blessing behind the broken heart

"If I could tell you a secret, Jamie, I would tell you that I still love her I would tell you that Elizabeth is soht in the world I would tell you she’s the reason I started to breathe again So what a that she can’t be mine? I just wish…" I clearedfor Answers to the unasked questions, I supposed "I just wish I knew you would be okay with this I wish I kneas okay for ain" As I stood up to leave, I kissed ray toht before I turned to leave, a sainst my arm A wave of coood," Ithat it was a kiss from my loved ones I kneould be okay one day, because it was obvious that I wasn’t alone

"What are you looking at?" Mo room table Dad had made her for Christmas a few years before

I held on to the picture Emma had taken of Elizabeth and me with the white feathers many months before I’d looked at it every day since I left "Nothing"

"Letbeside asp fall from her lips "That’s her"

"That’s who?"

"Kevin!" she shouted, calling Dad into the room "Kevin! Come here!"

He hurried into the room "Yeah?"

She passed the picture to Dad, and he narrowed his eyes as Moirl I was falling apart in the waiting rooery I was sobbing uncontrollably, and this woman walked up toto the picture "Are you sure?"

She nodded "I knoithout a doubt in ery, I didn’t knohat to do, who to check on first…so she sat with Jamie while I sat beside Charlie" She looked at me with confusion in her stare "Why do you have a picture with her?"

I took the picture back frorip on as happening She stayed by Jamie’s side "I don’t know"