Breaking Free From My Ex (Grace and Antonio)

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After countless sleepless nights, I surprisingly caught some solid z's on the flight.

In my dreams, Antonio's face kept showing up, like he was just waiting for me there.

Back when we were just seven, we used to play games together.

He'd tell me he was the groom, and I was the prettiest bride.

When we turned eighteen, we made that game real.

He vowed to hustle hard and give me a grand wedding.

But when did things start to fall apart between us?

Did it start after Stella showed up, or was it before that?

I couldn't even remember it anymore.

Antonio had been the center of my world for as long as I could remember.

No matter how much I tried to stay cool and get over him, it felt like my insides were being torn apart.

Once I landed, I didn't even have the guts to turn on my phone.

"Grace!"

My mom was waving at me, standing out in a sea of

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foreigners.

It had been ages since we last saw each other.

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She wasn't the same woman I remembered, sitting on the couch, crying, waiting for my dad to come home.

She was older, but she exuded more charm than before.

"You've grown so much," she said, her voice filled with wonder.

My mom kept touching my face, saying sorry over and over again.

I just let go and hugged her tight.

I said, "Mom, I'm not holding it against you.

"You said I should love myself first before seeking love from others."

years apart, my mom and I both made the same

been calling non-stop,"

1. me.

my tears, but

with you all the way," she

blowing up with

I could even catch up on

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coming in.

like

never heard Antonio this worked

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the picture, why was he still worried about me,

"Grace, have you read

true.

I promise you. She's just like

it in the tears you've left on my journal pages. I've been remiss, but it was never my intention to

kind of

get that you think you're obligated to stay with me, but that's why I'm walking away. It's to set us both free,

you happy

"Why the tears?"

Stella was his shining moment, the highlight of his

most brilliant, the most vivid chapter of

his memory that I put in the work to get him back on

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soaking in the glory days, I was the one emptying my bank account to cover

groveling to business associates, doing

one downing drinks till I was senseless, so wasted I nearly lost

that registered

onto was the heady,

lying to me that it was a

a symbol to keep him

he truly yearned to keep alive was his

he had the chance to reclaim his

did he miss me

you ditched the wedding to teach me a lesson, didn't you? You've got it bad for me, so much that my recent lack of attention stung, and this was your way of hitting

willing to let it slide. Grace, whatever you do, I'm

there, dumbfounded, not knowing

day, when I was young and naive, I

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