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“I did not cry [...] I did not think. I simply sat, and watched and waited. One road had closed, one path to resolution. I would never make it up with her, never get to apologize or tell her what she'd meant to me. I would not be her friend again. I had not conceived this possibility. Forgiveness. I hoped she had forgiven me.”

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