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Guilt Monologue

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Day 3: I forgive myself for the morning of February 12th 1998. Yes, I have been carrying this guilt with me for 17 years. I have run every scenario at least 10,000 times, every “What if”, and it always ends the same. A widow, a fatherless child and no Dragonfly; Along with my body being dragged out alongside yours, and a headstone next to you. Although, there have been times I wished it were so, I know there was no other way for that morning to end. There are only a few people in my life that I would brave the fires of Hell for, and you were one of them… but I didn’t that night. When it mattered, I faltered, I stumbled, and I failed. Although I know now that it didn’t matter, you were gone before I ever tried to enter the building. “Don’t

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