Exodus - Kate Stewart

Can you live a lie?\n It’s a ghost town, this place that haunts me, the one that made me.\n It’s clear to me that I’ll never outgrow Triple Falls or outlive the time I spent here.\n I can still feel them all, my boys of summer.\n Even when I’d sensed the danger, I gave in.\n I didn’t heed a single warning. I let my sickness, my love, both rule and ruin me. I played my part, eyes wide open, tempting fate until it delivered.\n There was never going to be an escape.\n All of us are to blame for what happened. All of us serving our own sentences. We were careless and reckless, thinking our youth made us indestructible, exempt from our sins, and it cost us all.\n I’m done pretending I didn’t leave the largest part of me between these hills and valleys, between the sea of trees that hold