“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”

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I've always believed in the idea that 'everything will be okay in the end.' It's a mantra I've repeated to myself all throughout high school, as I was falling in and out of love like I knew what I was doing.<div><br></div><div>Now I realize that life is imperfect.  Love is imperfect. </div><div><br></div><div>Things fall together, fall apart, and that there are some things you simply cannot control. </div><div>And this is a good thing. </div>

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