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„I was amazed, I crumpled the envelope as I leaned against the window ledge. The sheet in my other hand trembled. The wind wanted to blow it upward and make the move I wouldn't take.
The letter remained folded, then refolded, but my heart had been unfolded, I don't even know how many times, it didn't fit back into my chest anymore.“

„You've already seen that there's no way, there's no way, change will always come, whether we run after it or it runs over us, without asking us to move out of the way. And it's good that it comes, closure is what's good for you, the right ending that pushes us in the right direction, if it weren't for the finality of the end, would we just live the same day every single day?“

„…if I had faced my father with my head held high instead of talking to him all shriveled up. If I wanted to open up to him, I should have done it with my heart open, determined, but I decided to let shame accompany me. I was all scared, measuring my words, barely letting them out of my mouth, they got too big, the words, because of the shame, because the shame was well nourished, fat.“

„…realizing that what we are doesn't come from anything we were taught, it just doesn't, because you and Father raised me right, gave me everything, it comes from inside, it hurts when we realize were hurting everyone because of how they were raised to feel about this, because everyone grows up learning to reject this kind of person, who has to run away from what they were taught and go after what's inside…“