dear [null],

it’s been a long time.

needless to say, i hope this letter finds you well.

though my apologies for the silence between us may be long overdue, i hope you can still accept them. i received your tape — and listened carefully — but i haven’t been able to find the right words to truly respond to everything you told me. until now.

honestly, after hearing your message, i realized that i have been pushing things aside. turning away. i think that today i finally understood what you meant.

everything feels different now. there has been a change in the air — have you noticed? a certain slant of light. a slow rumbling beneath the surface. things are beginning to shift, however imperceptibly, toward a rupture of some kind. a breaking point. a return.

far off, somewhere out there, it’s as if a fire has ignited which can not be extinguished. a bell has sounded which can not be unrung. a threshold has been crossed which can not be retread. a path has been revealed which can only be followed forward, with courage and open eyes.

lately it feels like i’m losing my mind. as if suddenly a great curtain has drawn back across the truth of the world.

each day it grows harder to ignore. i think you were right.

something is coming.

hold fast.

yours, [null]

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