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To: nathan_hill@gmail.com
Cc/Bcc:
Subject: " el fin "

i could ask you why,
you broke up with me
or do some digging and find out why
(since i finally read that email)
but it doesn't matter.

besides,
that's your story to tell.

not mine
and every story
has at least two sides.

this is only one.

what does matter is that i leave
on good terms with you and him,
and stop dwelling on the past.

all i needed to know is
that it hopefully wasn't my fault.

we may never make full
amends,

and that's okay.

but i want to say something i should have said,
a long time ago.

goodbye & i'll miss you

just because i'm leaving you, doesn't mean my journey ends here.

because it won't.

i'll laugh, cry, and experience my whole life ahead of me.
and you will too,
just not with me.

and that's okay.

because we will be okay.

we are okay.

and i am going to leave you
because i will not be the girl
who you left behind
for her.

i will be the girl
who left you behind
after all this time.

and even though it might seem like it,
i promise you i'm not crying.

with love,
ana j. anderson

Draft saved 5/34/6 at 10:39 pm

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a u t h o r 's  n o t e:

who else is actually crying right now besides me?
i hope you guys enjoyed this story, my first every wattpad completed story!!!! and i hope you will enjoy new stories i will write later on. i love you all and your support has been incredible, i never imagined i'd end up #5 on the hot list with over 200 thousand reads, but you made my dreams reality, so thank you very much! <333
— layla.

[ p.s. i read every comment on this story even though i do not personally respond to all of them~! ]

2 0 1 8 a u t h o r 's  n o t e: 

firstly, i'd like to thank you all for still reading this story three years after i originally published it. looking back on this story, i mostly see the mistakes and cringe, but it was my first story on this site, so it will always mean a lot to me, even if i really had no idea what i was doing back then (and that's even true now). my writing has progressed so much since then, but it's nice to look back every once in a while. thanks again. 

also, for everyone wondering, ana didn't send this email because she plans to print them out and give it to him that way. it was mentioned in a previous chapter, but i didn't really make it clear or bring it up again. (blame thirteen-year-old me for that)

lastly, i'm attempting to go back to the romance genre with a new story i'm writing, 'when stars collide', so if you want to read that, it's up on my profile!

— lay.