🪷 Maddi 💐 :
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. oh arthur, oh arthur. I was just starting to 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 from which one can escape. Im so sorry, for everything. For everything long ago, and for starting up that business. There's a good man within you, arthur. But he is wresting with a giant, and the giant wins time and time again. You've broken my heart again. And for that, I'll never forgive myself but you must let me go now. I enclose a ring 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 and it reminds me too much of you. I hope one day you will find some people in love who can use this, foe it kept me thinking of you all these years. and I hope, by returning it to you, I can finally be free.
Goodbye,
Mary.
2025-07-01 21:05:45