We are backwards and we are forewards and I think this time I have to snip the cord.

I would rather be alone and have a solid justification for loneliness that I feel than to be in a situation in which I should feel connected and do not.

With luck, with a strength I am not sure I possess, I will turn into a brick, like you. I will not allow myself to soften, to reconsider, or to concede to being disappointed.