...If that is what your heart tells you, then I won't go and get angry on your behalf. I don't think it's fair, but that you two can still know each other is a precious, precious thing. Means you two were meant to be linked in your hearts, just perhaps not in that particular way.

[and who knows, she thinks. he could come back, beg her forgiveness. but that sort of thing happens in books only, she thinks.]

Still. If it lingers in your head and you need to get your feelings out, you know you can always call. I know that such a thing...you need time before it stops feeling so new, longer than you might think. Or even if it does not linger, still call.