Dear Brook,
At this point, it's almost been a year of silence between you and I, and for that, I am grateful. Around this time last year, I noticed that Tanya posted a cryptic photo that looked like you and Anna under a wooden arch, and I thought maybe you were engaged but possibly married too. When you posted that you were married two weeks ago and have been, I therefore wasn't the most surprised. If anything, I am relieved and happy for you. It's a relationship that made sense to me in idea, and I believe it will pan out in reality too, much like that idea of us apart. Glad you feel free to express your love. I am grateful too to see an actualized consequence to a major decision I was able to make at a point where I felt too weak to make any decisions altogether. I have become a much stronger person due to it.
The easiest way for me to be grateful for my freedom is when I imagine what alternate universes would have panned out by now if we were to have continued. Maybe it's a self-serving prophecy, but realistically, if you can marry someone who was strictly "your friend" that easily, I believe our relationship would have deteriorated further than it did. I like to believe the ending was a preservation of what was good, full. Deep in a coveted part of my heart, there is a faint, maudlin warmth at the memory of us finishing our adventure on the beautiful island of Bermuda at the end, walking together quietly along the most beautiful coastline I've ever seen in my entire life. No one else I would have wanted to experience that with, and in a way, I died there, happy.
Reborn from then, you should know that I carry your thoughts, beliefs, ideologies, and passion for life with me as I become more the person I want to be every day. You are thought of always, and you will always be loved.
Thank you. Thank you forever.
