Let your illusions last until they shatter...

“I’m going to unfriend you”, he wrote. “I want to remember the way it was that night, and seeing your updates is lessening it for me.” She hated this, but imagined how tragically romantic it would sound five years hence. She expressed sorrow, withheld her diagnosis of his psychological disorder, and tried to release him in a way that left him with his illusions intact. She just wished he’d done the same for her.