They abandoned me 480 kilometers away as a joke.

new future.

Sometimes, while I’m serving coffee in the cafe, advising a customer, or sitting next to Grant at sunset, I remember the frightened woman who was alone near that gas pump.

I’m no longer ashamed of her.

I am grateful to him.

She refused to sit around waiting for people who had never valued her.

He distanced himself from everything that was familiar and built a life practically from scratch.

They thought they were leaving her behind.

Actually, it was she who finally abandoned them.