Thank you so much, I'm...Saying I'm glad it resonated with you the way it did feels a bit odd, considering at its core it's about alienation, but I can be glad for connection, so yeah, I'm so so glad the parts that were meant to hit did in fact do their job and give you all the Feels. This is a very personal piece for me as well and yes, yes exactly re: the ending! Life marches on, and with it come all the mundanities like tidying up and eating and that doesn't mean the grief goes anywhere, doesn't mean the mundanities come in the way of it. You can both grieve and eat, even if at first that feels wrong, and eventually the eating becomes natural again. Eventually.
Thank you for sharing this with me <3 I've genuinely been rotating your comment in my brain the past several days and grinning like an absolute nonsense person. If you do replay, I hope it's just as fulfilling.