OK.
I’ve ranted here too. Quite a bit, actually.
And I know this is applying real-world feelings to a show, but we’ve been doing that all along. 😉
You can be happy again after something like that. There is *always* a shadow of sorrow. But life goes on. You do still love. You still laugh. You still live.
It’s never the same. There’s always that sorrow. But saying no love ever
again?
I, thank God, have never known that pain. But I have friends and loved ones who have. And it’s doing them a disservice to suggest you should never, ever be happy again after that.
To be honest? I hope we see Rumple marry Belle this season. Not because he’s replacing Bae. But because life goes on. And you can’t stop living. Or loving. If anything, this just drives that home.
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“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
-- Dylan Thomas