~... thought that after 2.5 years, I would run into the daughter of the owner of the aforementioned beauty center I worked at and would spend the entire day with her as if we had never fell apart? 6 years younger than me, she always clinged on me like a younger sister would to her elder back then and when she told me the events that unfolded during my absence, I felt something tearing my chest open and grasping my heart as if to give it an open-heart massage. Mutually possessing the miseries of the "only child"ren who are forced to carry burdens too heavy for their shoulders, we quenched our thirst for being understood with each other until the farewells were exchanged, both of us aware that that until next time