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Illustration: A small paper boat with a flower in it floating away down a gentle stream through a sunlit forest.

Letting go

You can love someone and still let them go.

Letting go doesn't mean the love is gone. It doesn't mean you didn't care, or that the person didn't matter.

Sometimes love and letting go live side by side. You wish them well. You remember them warmly. And you let them drift toward a life that isn't yours to share anymore.

It's one of the quietest, bravest kinds of love there is.

Place the flower in the boat. Let the stream do the rest.