Terry pulled out a crumpled and yellowed piece of paper from his pocket. The words "I'm sorry, I'm leaving." were written on the paper.

Lisa had left this behind back then. He had been carrying it with him all these years.

Terry had had several episodes of anger where he had crumpled the paper into a ball and thrown it in the trash, but after that, he would rummage through the trash can and retrieve it again.

The note Lisa had left behind was like a thorn in his heart. He could not remove the