It gets easier... is that what you're saying?

( she understands, but— doesn't at the same time.
how many years would have to pass to dampen the pain that losing someone you cherished? how could the void that they left ever heal over...?
maybe this was why... it was simpler to just cut yourself off from the world, wholesale... )

Time heals all wounds, is that it? Only... they never tell you about the scars it leaves behind.