[Fandaniel might be the only person to think he's sensible, but at least someone does.]

Isn't that just how it goes?

[Life is just the same wounds getting picked open again and again and again until it becomes either unbearable or possible to ignore. Pain never truly goes away, it just becomes tolerable.]

…Have you just been trying to forget the pain of it? Forgotten things will never stay that way.

[He would know.]

But I’m not about to tell you how to handle your grief. You’ve had nearly twenty years to find out how to cope, so I’m not sure any sympathy I tried to show would make a difference.