Aliyah,

I'm truly sorry for wasting your time.

Three years, and you were honest with me for all of them while I wasn't honest with you for any. You didn't get the relationship you thought you were in, and you never got to choose that. I took that decision away from you every single day.

I know I was always there, always replying, always around. That made it worse, not better, because it meant you had no reason to doubt any of it.

I love you truly. I would start over fresh, delete accounts and everything, if that's what it took. But I'm not asking you for anything, and I'm not owed an answer.

Michael