Lettin' go.

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“You destroy the things you love,” he told me, his back still before me.

“But why?” I asked, trying my hardest to understand and just not getting it. “Why would you destroy something you love? Wouldn’t you want to keep it forever?”

“There is no such thing as forever, Frank,” he informed me seriously. [...] “You have to let things go eventually. You can’t hold onto things forever because there is no such thing. And it’s better if you yourself let it go than have someone else make you.”
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-The Dove Keeper.