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    can stay here, for as long as you need.”


    My tears broke again. Not because I was sad-but because of those words. So simple, yet almost impossible to hear from anyone until now. Everyone thought I was strong. Everyone assumed I knew what I was doing. When in truth, most of my time was spent just trying to hold myself together, to not fall apart in front of others.


    1 looked up slightly, meeting her eyes. “If I give up… would you still want me around?”


    “If you give up, I’ll give up with you. We can fall together, as long as you don’t disappear alone.”


    I held her tighter, not holding anything back anymore.


    That night, in the arms of a friend, I let every mask I’d worn crumble. I allowed myself to break. And for the first


    time… I didn’t feel ashamed of it.


    That night, I just wanted to be human. Not a mother. Not a strong woman. Not the ex-wife who had to stay


    Just Sienna. The one who was tired. The one who cried. But the one who, finally… was brave enough to begin


    healing.


    “Why does everything have to be this bad?” I whispered in despair. “Why do I have to lose everything all at


    once?”


    Liliana didn’t answer. But her hug was enough to make me feel I wasn’t alone-at least not tonight.


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