Three days later? Ethan returned to New York alone.
When he got home he noticed lights on in the house next door.
The housekeeper told him the Collins family had sold all their properties. New neighbors had moved in two days ago.
Hearing this, Ethan finally felt the heavy truth that things could never go back to the way they were.
He stayed up the whole night in his room.
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Early the next morning he watched through his window as the new neighbors dismantled the
garden swing set. They replaced the pink and white curtains with dark green ones and threw away
the shell wind chimes that had hung by the door.
Everything connected to the Collins family–to Avery–was vanishing from his world.
Powerless to stop it Ethan started drinking heavily to drown his feelings
His battered heart grew hollow losing the ability to feel emotions.
Love and hate pain and regret joy and hope…
All slipped away from him.
His room filled up with random objects he’d salvaged from next door.
Only when searching for these items did he find moments of clarity.
The neighbors‘ five–year–old followed Ethan around helping him “treasure hunt.”
The big tree in the yard was chopped down, the rose garden dug up, and the cartoon–painted rocks smashed.”
Each item brought back memories for Ethan.
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The kid kept asking questions about everything they found.
Ethan would stare blankly words forming but dying on his lips.
Then from some hidden corner they dug up a large wish jar.
Opening it he found a hundred love letters inside with familiar handwriting on the covers.
Ethan’s eyes filled with tears.
The curious child innocently grabbed the top letter and read it aloud.
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“Dear Ethan, hi. If you’re reading these letters we must be together by now. Otherwise you’d never know these existed. We’ve known each other for nineteen years and all this time you had no idea
Desperate, like a man clinging to his last hope, he rushed to catch a flight to win back the person he might have lost forever.
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