You can divide into stages the widespread devastation of regret. These stages take into account the extent to which the regret has spread, the size of the regret, how deeply it has penetrated, and whether it has invaded those adjacent to you. Regret, a silent killer, living inside organs (heart, lungs) and slowly—then sometimes all-at-once—metastasizing, eating parts of you alive, sometimes parts you didn’t know existed, with foreign-sounding names.

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