Wait, hol on! If they were hidden in his dedk for months while he was declining, why is she only revealing them now? Did Elena find out before she died and forced this on us? Or is 'Dad' not tthe father we think he is? The timeline doesn't add up. ๐คฏ
Oh my hert! ๐ The weight of those shoes must be so heavy for her to carry aalone. There is such a tender beauty in how she finally hax the chance to heal with his memory now that it's ssafe.
She knew I was building walls of glass: transparent, fragile, but enough to keep anyone from seeing what lay behind them.
The metaphor of 'glass walls' is hauntingly accurate for our era. We build these barriers thinking they offer protection, only to realize they trap us in a sterile isolation where no one else can truly touch us, yet we remain utterly visible. Is it possible that the glass makes us more transparent, not less?