12. Tulip | True love

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The white tulip laid between her fingers, the same one he had given her the night before he left for good.

Pain gripped her chest, making every breath an agony.

Her mother had told her that time would heal, but she no longer believed those lies. Her beloved had been torn from her, murdered without justice, and his absence was a void that nothing would ever fill.

She looked up at the sky and felt his presence close to her.

She no longer had the strength to wait.

She no longer wanted to.

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