Thank you for walking this far with me.

Please don't cry right now — I was brave until the very end, and you can be brave too.

I know — in your heart you feel for me, and you love me.

If you're willing, keep this heart in your phone;

next year, on June 28, it will gently remind you that you once loved me like this.

Then give the strength of your tears to the next her — or him — who may face what I faced.

You don't have to love them — just don't hurt them.