Summer Epilogue: One month later

Grand Valley: I'm baaaaaaaack. Thank goodness. I was going to say the only thing I missed about that island was him, but as I typed it, I realized it was not true. There are a lot of things I miss and a lot of things I don't. Yet, he is the biggest factor. I wish I could stop thinking about it, but I can't. It's getting easier everyday. He did not break my heart, but he could have been a little more gentle. And I could have been a little more honest.

I am a different person now than I was last year. It is so obvious even to myself. I don't know how one person could change that much. Multiple things happened on that island that changed my life forever, in little ways and big ones. But I see the person I am now and I like her so much more. She's confident, outspoken, more culturally aware, brave, questioning, intelligent, mature, informed. She's ten thousand steps closer to being the person I have been imagining myself as that I thought I would never be.

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