After Two Years, I Felt Real Hope, and Then I Blinked, and It Was Gone Again

How to recover from a heartbreak life gave you.

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The hope I felt on that day didn’t feel like the sun shyly and hesitantly rising in my chest like it probably should have.

The hope launched like a rocket. It wasn’t there one second, and then I blinked, and it was.