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unmoving, inaccessible and unlikely to be continued at this time.

Life, full of twist and turns but somewhere down the line, if you are lucky enough, you find somebody to not just endure life with, but to love life with. Sometimes life is a joke, the very most precious insurmountably irreplaceable unbelievable miracle of your life is swept away and you are left crushed in its dust.

Readers may be filled with healing and crushing healing, both on the road of continued living.

The irony of the plot twist at this time and the other markings made in the physical book to note such baffling yet heartbreaking and somewhat to be expected occurrences make this an even harder read than it was in the beginning.

This book journey has been for more than a year now. What started as an attempt to come face to face with grief of a decade ago and cope with the impending reality of coming to terms with long suppressed emotions and the fate of living on, has since faded. It had become a current resignation with grief and the choice not given facing anticipated death and acceptance of mortality. Another loss meets this journey...

A book for everywhere/time, since every opportunity, grief may come at you and lessons, and also enlightenment.

By now, the book tackles a multitude of strangers likened only by their shared experiences of loss and grief. Stereotypes even in survivor's guilt shows disparities of coping with loss depending on age, biology and time since the loss.

We are all strangers until death comes for us all in the end.

Now, more than ever, this book's content reverberates through my soul. To have the access and privilege to communicate with a Dead Loved One (DLO), as much as a double-edged sword it may be, it is what many feel they need and just want to comtinue living without the person they lost. Death is constant, a canon event, but its loss makes the differential. Long or quick, then or now, loss feels whatever the case may be.

Taurus ♉️ ✔️

It's come to the attention towards belief systems, whether religious, superstitious, or suspicious, that persons will and are likely to retain information and receive understanding points aligned to their existing beliefs and sometimes ongoing life concerns. This relates to the particularities and subjectivity of something to be fictitious, untrue, and often more vague to root from personal notions.

Reminder: The title suggests a sarcastic notion for understanding the content and intentions of this book, unserious.

In some could-be-taken-seriously portions, there lies some mature content, most likely intended for well-aware and high-functioning young-at-heart elderly readers.

Book 1 Chapter 4 of 38.

It is quite infuriating, the amount of gatekeeping for this book. It is sold out everywhere online, and the paid versions on the app Galatea require payment to access Book 2 & 3. They are yearly fees, not just for the books. Hence, pricing is unreasonable if readers are uninterested in the paid commitment to app fees and inclusive access.

Accessed thru: Galatea App

Notes:
▪︎ App is paid. Free option is waiting for access for each chapter.
▪︎ App is heavily secure with an odd feature. It prohibits screencaptures of any kind.
▪︎ No page nos. are indicated on the app.

*If at this time, the reader believes this is a waste of time, this is your sign to stop. Reviews regarding the time consumption for this point to this book as most likely overrated. TBD.

The platform to access this 'book' is not free and requires absolute patience.

So far, recommended material in the realm of this storyline thus far:
- Mutya ng Section E (PH, 2025)
- XO, Kitty (USA, 2023)

Brought upon by incessant Instagram ads, here we are, staying open-minded that there is a redeeming arc to this overused and derogatory trope. Enemies to lovers with a bully and bullied dynamic rarely turn worth the effort to indulge, but giving this a chance to end the whole debate of its literary [entertainment] worth.

Pages revealing that this material is as unserious as its title suggests. There lies some literal, possibly useful reminders or tips that are followed by utter nonsense comedic relief situationers. Must read more to uncover relevance and credibility.

Turns out, there's more ways to freedom when the truth is set free.

Freedom to breathe, to sigh in relief, or in this narrative's case, to rest in peace. The latter may not be as willfully freeing as the formers. Nevertheless, the truth comes sooner or later. Seems likely that the longer it's kept from light, the darker its consequences come to.

Maturing is realizing that not everyone, not even just anyone, can be your therapist. Let it be known how immature some can be, to rely and build dependence on a child who felt to speak their mind at the right (wrong) time.

Maturing is also realizing that chaos is a 'to each their own' resolutions of circumstances, not to be projected or relied on to others besides oneself.

Lies piled;
Secrets surfaced;
Truth revealed.

It's said that upfront bullies, jerks, and downright ill-behaved, ill-intentioned people are no much worse than quiet scheeming, lying manipulators. The former, more upfront, and the same as one would expect them to be. The latter pretend as to earn one's trust only to betray for their own gain. As it's been said, "Be careful of the quiet ones, there lies, most unknown."

Feelings make everything a whirlwind of complicated scenarios at each turn. Crushes, even before love, can, for lack of a better word, make a person go crazy. At the very least, confused, thinking with the heart makes decisions filled with tensioned sincerity. It also seems to show the feeling of internalized fault, no matter the decision, some things may come off lacking or wrong or unknown.

The lies are piling up. The secrets are becoming bigger. Her heart more fluttered, her confused in the head.

Not to reveal too much... It's refreshing that the build-up seems sleight even this far into the book. Anticipation for it in reverse effect, such as mentioned repeatedly in the story as an 'it came out of nowhere' occurrence.

More and more, this book shows twists and turns as it recounts and monologues the in-story sharing of events. Have yet to reveal the character dynamics fully, as well as the origins of the title as it was mentioned in passing.

What is it about spilling your deepest kept thoughts and sharing them with complete strangers that make honesty come easy? Perhaps the principle of not caring about a person unbeknownst to us? Or the mystery shrouding the encounter that would ease the tension of an otherwise uncomfortable exchange? Would it ease the truth if ever shared with people close to us in real life? Or does its anonymity dull the reality?

Grief, like opinions, are personal and unique. A particular way of processing or coping may not fare well with different people or even with similar people with different experiences. The occurrence in its deepest, most important aspects are subjective and only objective in the sense of mass teaching of viable options to remain sane in moments of loss. No matter the loss, no one really knows how to live with it.

Grief may come with denial, delusion and depression that has a very few in-the-moment considerable resolutions or at the very least alleviation tactics. AI software way ahead of its time in the early 2000s like in the book with today's advancement of deep fake tech would definitely be a tempting coping mechanism for those in grief. May it be less rational that it may be calming or comforting.

Countless suggestions are given to grieving souls on how to move on and live on. Does grief ever cease, though? Does anything ever work? Writing letters the way once commonplace for communication and closure, does not receiving anything close or open further a heart's longing?

Grief unravelling from not being overcome is quite a hard deja vu phenomenon in one's life. Reliving a life of another based on broken and incomplete almost fading memories, just to fall back into to reality, that that person is no longer around, almost not even a memory.