For years, I’ve dreamt of what college life could bring and while some things changed, there was always one constant.

It didn’t matter how wild I allowed my imagination to run, it always led me to the same place in the end.

 

It led me to him.

My future was clear, and he was it.

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Until suddenly ... he wasn’t.

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Now I’m a shell of who I was, on a path too blurry to follow, and I see no way out.

No way up.

 

They say first loves last forever.

That’s exactly what I’m afraid of.