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2024-10-29 19:42:56“Most endings, they deem it as sad. But I have always believed the opposite. Endings are beautiful as long as you try to seek the beauty in it. After all, it is an indication of a new beginning.”
CHAPTER LXXI: A River to the Final Destination; Dawn of the End (Part I)
RIVERS USED TO be so pure to me. I see myself in them. They reflect my identity. They reflect the dirtiness of me, and at the same time, they clean it. In most cases, I have dreamt about living by the side of a river, or at least, a creek. However, it was not really the way the world had for me.
I still fulfilled the dream of living beside a body of water. Except, it was the ocean. The ocean that I never really liked. I once had a traumatic experience — that was why. And
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