Title: Losing A Forbidden Flower Author: [Insert Author Name if known, otherwise assume it is a contemporary fiction/romance novel] Genre: Contemporary Romance / Coming-of-Age / Drama Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5 Stars)

1. Create a Private Ritual

Just because society won't give you a funeral doesn't mean you cannot hold one. Go to a place that meant nothing to anyone but you two. Sit in your car. Write a letter you will never send. Say out loud: "I loved something I shouldn't have, and now it's gone, and that hurts." Witness your own pain.

It is a "faded violet," as Percy Bysshe Shelley once wrote—a shriveled form that "mocks the heart which yet is warm". Flower Symbolism in World Literature: A Complete Guide

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