[ Sarah makes it to the second paragraph before her eyes well up with tears. By the time she's finished reading, they've begun to spill over, and she doesn't bother wiping them away. She's managed to hold it together this long, but Sarissa leaving her this letter, these gifts, makes her absence real in a way it hadn't been before. Sarah believed—still believes—that all of this is just some huge fuck up, that Sarissa's supposed to be back here instead of her grandmother, but knowing it's a mistake doesn't mean shit when she can't change any of it. When Sarissa's still gone. ]
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