After so many years of having this story in my head, I finally worked up the courage to share it here. That, in a way, set me free. I didn’t realize it, but somehow it haunted me. All this time I had her on social media, but we didn’t interact at all. Until I dared to talk to her and sent her the story I had written. At first she was surprised. She couldn’t believe that I had published it for anyone to read. I was a bit a...