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I love the email drafts! Excellent story!

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Thank you!🩶 I haven’t got to yours yet. I began reading through the whole list, but now life gets in the way of my reading. I’ll get back to reading later (plus I’m a slow reader…).

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Clever framing and a very moving story. I can’t tell which character your prompt came from, which is great! Talk about empathy!

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Thank you so much 🩶

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Kat, I am actually crying after reading this. The story, this situation hits home. It’s just that both of them is me. I try to pull away but always make myself stay. A part of me has moved on and the other part is still tangled. 'a precious, exhausting mess’ - I know this too well. 'I wished I could drown with them.’ - a frequent visitor among my thoughts.

I just got to know there is an epilogue to this story. I think life seldom gives you closure. It is almost always open-ended - the series of events hardly ever makes sense. You are yet to make peace with the existing reality when life hurls you into another crisis.

Overall, the story was very well narrated - it flowed smoothly. I loved the first-person perspective, made the characters and their emotions come to life.

EDIT: "I had to grow to find you again.” - maybe that is it! Perhaps it’s not working right now because it isn’t the right time. Thank you for the epilogue, Kathrine! There is just too much sorrow in this life that everyone wants happy endings, even if they merely exist on paper.

(I couldn't comment on the other post with the epilogue because the thread is open only for the paid subscribers.)

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Thank you 🩶 I felt like crying when I wrote it. The characters just broke my heart. (I’m weird, I know). The first person POV wasn’t really my choice, it was one of the rules of this Same Walk, Different Shoes project.

There is an epilogue! Published it yesterday:

https://open.substack.com/pub/kathrineelaine/p/tangled-untangled-epilogue?r=2rhgsy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

If this link doesn’t work, you can find the epilogue on my Substack, it’s called Tangled (untangled epilogue). Don’t worry if it says “paid”, the main version is free, I wrote 2 versions. The second is behind paywall, but it’s very much like the first one, just a different (dark) ending.

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Yes, I read the epilogue. I edited my previous comment, but you probably read it before I made the changes. Even wanted to read the darker version but never mind. I am crazy for happy ever after! Haha!

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Yes, the happy ever after is better. The other version I modified to dark to submit it to a journal. They wanted spicy and dark. I like the HEA better. They deserved a happy ending.

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What a clever way to frame this story! Brilliant.

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Very clever way to tell two sides of a story. I loved the differences in the details - the biro tattoos, the hair pulling.

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This is such a heartbreaker. 💔

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Such a sad story, you could feel how much they loved each other despite being so dysfunctional and not knowing how to be healthy together.

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Thank you 🩶

Yes, those guys made me cry (sheesh, I’m talking about fictional characters in my head!😅)

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I get it!

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This is so sad and so beautiful.

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Thank you 🩶

Psst, the ending made me so sad, I wrote an epilogue. I may be publishing it on Substack soon.☺️

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Oooo, that might cheer me up! 💜

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