Say YES if, despite everything, you hope she’s okay.
Because caring doesn’t have an off switch.
It just learns boundaries.
This—right here—is that honesty.
No dramatics.
No grand gestures.
No rewriting history.
Just the simple, terrifying truth:
She mattered.
She still does—maybe not in the same way, maybe not in a way that changes your life now, but in a way that shaped you.
And that’s allowed.
Say YES if you’re done pretending she was “just another person.”
Say YES if you’re ready to stop fighting the fact that some people leave fingerprints on your soul.
Say YES if you can admit—without spiraling, without self-blame, without nostalgia taking over—that Kristi was one of those people.
