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“i know you want to write the whole of it, every detail, so that we’ll never forget again, but owen, have mercy: don’t make me remember too well. don’t make me lose them again.
if you must write it, write it as a story or a song. a tale overheard, about other people. write it without you or i, but only they.”
“alright, love. like a story, then.”

“that time, i died smiling.
you’ll have to tell the rest of it.”

this essentially reads as one giant conversation between themselves, & i am worse off for it.

“god, please, don’t ask me to write it all down again.
it’s your turn to tell it, love.”

as the remainder of her second death is written not from his perspective, but hers.

i greatly appreciate alix e. harrow’s decision to write owen’s narrative as though he is addressing no one other than una. there’s an added intimacy to their story in doing so, with the consistent use of “you” & “your” when referring to her.

moreover, it very much reflects owen’s own thoughts in chapter 3: “i came to believe that whoever had written them had truly known you. […]”