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A sample from the desk. If there is a sorry you have carried for years and never said out loud, this is the letter I would write, in your place.

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To the one I never apologized to,

I said it in my head a hundred times. In the car. At 3am. Walking past the place we used to sit. I just never said it to you.

I kept waiting for the right moment. There was never a right moment. There was only the one I kept walking past.

Here is the honest part. I did not only hurt you. I also avoided the conversation that would have made me look at it. That is the second thing I owe you.

I am not writing to be forgiven. I am not writing so I can feel better, though I know it might. I am writing because you deserve to hear it in a voice that is not only in my own head.

I am sorry. Not the small kind. The kind that changes what I do next time.

You do not have to answer. You do not have to be okay with me. I just did not want to stay the kind of person who never said it.

Prexton

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