Sitting here speechless, I didn't know what to say. His painful, heart wrenching question kept repeating over and over like a broken record inside my head.
How can you not hate someone like me?
"I don't know!" I wanted to shout but something was holding me back. Something was making it impossible to scream the words I so desperately wanted to say. The words he so desperately wanted to hear.
Listening to him painfully talk about everything that happened, I felt like a bucket of ice water had been poured over my head. I didn't know what to say to pull him back from the memories that was keeping him from moving on, but I wish I could. I wish I could tell him that it was ok and that there was no reason for him to continue because I understand. I understand the hurt and pain he felt knowing
