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There are a few things I want to tell you.

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I’m not your victim. I’m not the result of your mistakes.

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I wouldn’t use the word love, because I didn’t love you. I was stuck in a cycle of emotional abuse, which you tried to make me think, was love.

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I don’t know about you, but I like to make meaning out of everything. I think a lot of people do, it’s human nature, really.

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The time I had once spent talking with you I suddenly had to fill, and nothing was enough. 

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Thank you for coming into my life when you did.

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I know you barely know me, and most days, that’s okay.

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Though I know that I must move on, I still miss you.

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I’m someone who falls in love easily; not only with people, but with places, feelings, experiences.

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We, as a system of education, have failed you. And I am deeply sorry.