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Dear Blossom,

You are extraordinary. Wherever you are suspended, whatever memories and thoughts and empathy make you in that moment, I acknowledge them here. I honour them. I honour you...

No. No, I'm sorry - that last one is dishonest. I cannot honour you. 

It is not that you were not full of things that could be praised or that your actions were empty. I  do not hate all of my memories of you. I bare you no ill-thought. In this instance, however, I worry between three worlds. One in which you do not exist, one in which you exist undefined and content, and one in which you are an ancestor to me. 

I cannot say which world I'd prefer. I resent all three when their gravity pulls me from this world I explore now, where my roots grew forever and my first leaf stretched out yesterday. I hate all three of those distant planets but I do not hate you.

I barely knew you, that is if you were ever here at all.

But... I wrote this because someone should try to give you some answers to some of the questions that hurt you. 

I owe you that, at least.

- Nozuko

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