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I won't tell you it's okay. I won't lie to you and say things will be all right... but I will tell you this: You are alive. You will continue to live and you will be all the more stronger for it. Live the life that your sister wasn't able to. Live on for the both of you. Never look back.

[He looks into her eyes as he says this, his gaze serious. It was important for the both of them that, while they were still consumed by sadness in their heart of hearts for the losses they'd experienced, they did not allow themselves to be lost to the past. They both had to move forward.

Then, very gently, he adds a few more words.]

You have nothing to apologize for.