Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Bleeding On the Inside ❯ End Notes ( Chapter 20 )

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Bleeding On the Inside - End Notes

Hello friends,

This has been quite a year for me (or year and a half, I guess I should say) and I want you to know that I appreciate every single person who took the time to read this story, leave a review, write me a letter, or show the story to others. For those that read this and saw themselves and gained for themselves a voice in which to speak or tears to cry, I am glad for you. For those that read this and saw themselves yet cannot speak yet, I pray your time will come when you can, if only to yourself. For those that could not read this but sent me words of empathy, I thank you and entreat you to take gentle care of yourselves. You all deserve the utmost happiness and peace. Hopefully we shall gain it one day.

This hasn't been easy going and I've neglected much of my writing in order to keep on with this story. I thank you for your patience with me. This is the end of Bleeding On the Inside, but it is not the end of my story, because nothing ever really ends. Perhaps I shall continue a second book, going deeper into the healing process, which has begun here in BOTI, but we shall have to wait and see for now.

Rape is a very real and very hidden problem in today's world. It can and does happen to normal people, male and female, young and old, rich and poor. Ignoring the problem has not made it going away. Denying the problem has not made it go away. And blaming the victims has not made the problem go away. I hope by acknowledgment, we can at least start on a new path to helping prevent rape before it happens, through education and social reform.

But more importantly, I wished to stress, in this story, the importance of a support group, of someone to talk to and cry on. Someone who understands and cares. Without his friends, Quatre might still have made it, but it would have been harder and it would have taken longer. Without my friends, Kracken, Shonny, Sailorcelestial, Little green, my Pandy's family, and everyone who gave me kind words of comfort when I needed them, I would not be standing where I am today. Thank you so very much.

Stay safe tonight,

Cherry Blossom

WALK ON - U2

And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring...
And love is not the easy thing...
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind

And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no, be strong

Walk on, walk on
What you got, they can't steal it
No they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight...

You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed to be seen
You could have flown away
A singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly, only fly for freedom

Walk on, walk on
What you got they can't deny it
Can't sell it or buy it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight

And I know it aches
And your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on

Home...hard to know what it is if you never had one
Home...I can't say where it is but I know I'm going home
That's where the heart is

I know it aches
How your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on

Leave it behind
You've got to leave it behind
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you steal
All this you can leave behind
All that you reason
All that you sense
All that you speak
All you dress up
All that you scheme...