To the person who’s choosing to be separate from someone you love during the holidays,

I don’t know why you have found yourself in this place. I don’t know how you arrived here. No one has a story exactly like yours. But I find myself standing here, too. It is a heavy, hidden place. The kind with secret passages, cryptic codes, and closed doors. I feel like no one around me can quite understand why I make this choice, but I also try to be ok with that.

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