This journal belongs to: Samantha Ruby Valdez
January/09/2016
Dear Life,
If you're reading this, I want to tell you that you are sort of boring. I want you to be interesting; I want to meet my dad and I don't know, just make yourself more interesting, maybe a whole lot. Make me start this year greatly.
~ August/13/2016
Dear Life,
Now that I know you can read, I really love you now, you're very interesting, and to more moments like these please. It's my 13th Birthday, cheers to more years like this one.
~ December/26/2016
Dear Life,
I take it back, I take it all back. I don't think you understood my message clearly. Now I want every detail of the old you back! Please, I'll do anything.
~ January/01/2018
Dear Life,
I miss them...
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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