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If there’s nothing more I can feasibly do for you, and nothing more you can feasibly do for me in this life, then there is no reason to latch onto our association any longer. If I tried, and if you tried, what more is there to do?

No apologies, no regret, no lamentation, no resentment, no second thoughts, and no turning back.

Ruthless? No. Because I owe my compassion, sensitivity, and energy to the things I can actually control—to the things that I am called to do in this world.