How to live without that is the thing. When there is something which defines us so much as that did you, being without it feels uncertain and what ground that we are left to stand on is shaky at best and there is little of it. What I thought then...I have no idea. I was stupid when we were getting started, and I still had much to learn when I came here.
Perhaps not healed, no. [Too much has happened for that. For Eponine to have escaped that life unscathed, it would have needed to happen a very long time ago, when they were both too young to have done it themselves. The thought of it is painful, perhaps more than it would have been once because she is now a friend.] But perhaps helped enough that it must not harm you any more than it has, or even enough that it does not take your future.
You have shown me greater realities than those I knew. That when I think something has reached its worst, the path can still continue downward, but in spite of that, one can survive, that there is still an ember and it glows at least, if it does not burn. As long as it glows, and one goes on, there is still something in this world, in people themselves. It is something to keep in mind, I think.
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Perhaps not healed, no. [Too much has happened for that. For Eponine to have escaped that life unscathed, it would have needed to happen a very long time ago, when they were both too young to have done it themselves. The thought of it is painful, perhaps more than it would have been once because she is now a friend.] But perhaps helped enough that it must not harm you any more than it has, or even enough that it does not take your future.
You have shown me greater realities than those I knew. That when I think something has reached its worst, the path can still continue downward, but in spite of that, one can survive, that there is still an ember and it glows at least, if it does not burn. As long as it glows, and one goes on, there is still something in this world, in people themselves. It is something to keep in mind, I think.