They owe you an apology, yes, of course they do; it’s just that, you owe yourself a bigger one. You owe yourself an apology for staying in the environment where they left you rotten. You owe yourself an apology for thinking that you could ever change them, and that you too could change. You owe yourself the biggest apology for staying even though you’re dying. You owe yourself the greatest apology for choosing to keep breathing when every breath already felt like walking through shards of glass. Because in the end, it was you who abandoned you.
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