It Turns Out All We Have Left Are Memories

So even a love between equals, with both people reaching for each other, can end badly. Even the most beautiful story can become a memory. The hardest thing to accept isn’t that we never began, but that what we had is already over. Your future no longer has me in it. I’m the only one still standing where we left each other.

In my brief youth, you were the brightest thing in my life. It’s a pity that those shining days couldn’t last forever.

Their relationship fell apart because of a carefully planned frame-up. He watched her emerge from the darkness and build a happy family. Though he regretted what he’d lost, he quietly wished her well. But then, in an “accident,” she died along with the child she was carrying. Amid his grief, he returned to the past as a spectator, watching their story unfold all over again, unable to change a thing. Only when the story ended did he awaken from the dream and return to reality. She had already left him.