6: i release you
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POV: It’s Christmas and you’re lonely in a sea of people. You call a friend to tell you a bedtime story or two.
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𝗮 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀: a collection of 100-word stories and holiday songs to sleep to.
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“Are we good?” he asks me as I am packing my things. “You seem upset?”
“I’m fine,” I lie. “But for what it’s worth, I release you. What happened happened a lifetime ago. I am letting you go.”
He looks up, confused. “You release me? What is there to release? Whatever you’re feeling – that’s on you. I dealt with all that years ago. I’m done.”
No man steps in the same river twice. For it is not the same river. He is not the same man.
How could I tell him? I thought he already knew. Sometimes, the river remembers.
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