The Last One She Wrote

The envelope’s nothing special.
Jane liked it that way. Said Daphne wouldn’t open anything too pretty.

Inside? A letter she never meant to send.
She wrote it after her seventh visit. Or maybe her seventeenth.
There’s a tally sheet. Some angry scribbles.
One line just says: “you left.”

It’s not sweet.
It’s not fair.
But it’s honest.

I don’t think Jane forgave her.
But I think this was the last letter.

I wrote it down so I could let it go,
— Elsie Thorne

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