“There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were all right. It should have been impossible. Was I supposed to love them all?”

Meaning

This reads as a reflection on loving someone who cannot be reduced to one stable self. It points to the strain, and the grace, of accepting that a person can be many things at once, each version real in its own way. It lands in moments when someone you care about changes in ways that are hard to hold together, and you have to decide whether love can make room for all of it.

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Originally said in English.

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