She has learned, in the 20 years of her life, that people eventually leave. And by that term she doesn't really mean that they go away from her life but rather that they just don't mean as much as they once did.
If you're as old as her or maybe older you will know by now that the people you once spent hours talking to at a stretch can't hold a 2 minute conversation with you anymore. People you longed to see everyday are a distant memory. People you cried with and laughed with are not the same people anymore or maybe they are but not as much.
She has learned that life goes on and that there are only lessons and memories you can take forward, that people get left behind someway or the other and that you gotta learn to live with that.
She has learned that it hurts and that it won't matter to both of you in the same measure as it does to one. That distance can be a bitch and so can time. That she will meet new people and she will hope she never has to say goodbye but then she will anyway, and she will meet new people who have so much more to give her in this life.
She has learned that she cannot stop people from leaving. She can try all she wants and she can fool herself into believing that she can make them stay. But really, they left long before she realized it. The people who have to leave, will, eventually.
She has learned all these things....
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