Divorce from my husband after he drowned my parents

ew that this would be the last time in my lif

to tell my parents

om them, as if I were still a child who had

hat I heard was a

signed the divorce pape

d is over, he and I will no

evoid of fluctuation, like

ce, I want a chan

you wanted to

le down the

, then almost as if breathing

n how humble I was

if you keep wronging yourself for too l

ys, I did

res with the lawyer, I also arranged fo

king away my past self,

show up until our seve

ly decorate the house, cook by hand, and

king that if I kept trying, the m

ime, I prep

w the deserted living r

for our anniver

had never really looked at me, and finally spoke with a c

ng unusual in my tone, e

ing in, saying I used to insist on rituals

ublesome, he wouldn't bo

he fu

handed him a delicate b

e the last year. H

ening it, casually placing

aid he'd g

igure disappear behind the b

ill held every gift I'd

the bag he'd sent me-sure enou

eral years in a row, like copy-pasting,

ing with my affections, only going

't cry

tood up and began

ut the love letters I had hidden for

taken photos, more than a hundre

them all

o leave, I accidentall

t down to help it up

y placed gift bo

s old, three years old.

of crystal bracelets-

fro

preparing heartfelt gi

hands, I picke

handwrit

st twenty years of your life, but for the rest of it,

nce given me a

eatrice, he had prepared twen

it felt like I'd sealed the last

swung open.He walked in qu

d you to tou