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remain

Remain as you always were, I told myself, over and over.

I felt myself slipping sometimes, but I never changed.

Yes, everything that I was dealing with that you weren't aware of hurt, but it didn't ruin me.

Pain can help you grow, too.

Not being able to be with you didn't break me, it didn't shut me in a dark room for weeks on end, it didn't make me cry myself to sleep every night. It wasn't dramatic, not being able to love you in the way I wanted to.

That was just the way it was, and I accepted it and continued to be myself.