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Epilogue
One Year Later
Nathan
The molecules in the air vibrate with the late summer heat. Each breath fills my lungs with humidity rather than the cleansing air that I require. It’s no matter, as I don’t plan to be out here for long. The setting sun glints off the silver band on my left hand as I lower my ass to the wooden planks of the Swinging Bridge. My head grazes the rail behind me and a quiet grunt slips free.
The neat, crisp paper crinkles beneath my fingertips. I unfold the letter. The last letter. The one written not at the advice of my therapist, but as a suggestion from my wife.
Thinking that word puts a soft smile on my face as I reread the heartfelt words I wrote just last night.
Janessa,
The first thing I want to say is thank you.
Thank you for showing me how to be a person deserving of love. Being with you shaped me into the man I am today, and I’m eternally grateful. Our lives were intertwined for only a short time, but you taught me so much about how to nourish a relationship to fully grow. It takes work. I know that now.
I also want to say I’m sorry for not finishing my last letter. At the time, the words wouldn’t come. The past and present held me captive until I felt ready to let go.
I’m ready now.
I have a new teacher, but you already know that. You knew long before I did that we’d be perfect for one another.
Your letter to Kiersten is framed on our mantle along with a photograph of you, snuggled between pictures of our son, Cedric. She put them up the day after I married her at the county courthouse with our closest friends and family as witnesses.
A month later, we put both our houses on the market and moved somewhere new together. A fresh start.
I hope wherever you are, you’re smiling. I hope the joy I feel in my heart reaches you too.
I’m a husband again and a soon-to-be father of two. And I’ve never been happier.
This chapter is closing. But you will always hold a small piece of my heart. My first love. My first wife. Having a new love doesn’t mean in replace of the old, it means in addition to. I know that now as well.
With love,
Nathan
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Rain pelts my yellow umbrella as I dash down the cracked sidewalk toward the only coffee shop in town. Of all the days for my car to break down, it has to be the day we experience torrential rain and I’m scheduled for an important meeting. Factor in the tiny town of Arrow Creek uses one taxi, zero Uber drivers, and one bus that departs at the ass crack of dawn, limits my options to calling in sick or walking.
