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Four months later

Dusti Shay

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Dear Butthead,

I love you and miss you so fucking much!

But MY GOD and I tired of grieving.

I am SO FUCKING tired of being sad, or angry, or tired.

GOD I am tired.

All the time.

Physically tired.

Mentally tired.

Emotionally tired.

All of it.

Grief is a gentle giant; a monster that is chained to my leg and I don’t have the key to the lock.

I don’t strain against the weight of him anymore.

I had been running full speed ahead when you died.

Then the manacle locked around my ankle and my face smashed into the pavement.

I kept trying to move forward, to drag its weight along with me, refusing to slow down.

The weight was too much for me.

So, I began trying to pry the shackles off.

To loose the monster that was dragging me backwards, so it seemed. I used every tool within my reach to get this THING off of me. I was NOT going to be latched to this….this CREATURE just because YOU decided to jump ship.

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