C-CAD4-029
Barista: Joy Livingstone
Date: Dec-30-2019
Receipt: C-CAD4-029
Subject: Business as Usual
Tomorrow will be hard. Maybe the hardest day this Cafe has ever known. Not ████████. Not ██████. Not some ████████████ ████████. Just grief—raw and unrelenting. And that? That can be more dangerous than anything else we’ve ever fought. Grief doesn’t kill you outright. It doesn’t strike like a blade or a curse. It seeps in, slow and quiet, like a cancer you don’t notice until it’s too late. It grows. It changes you. And if you let it fester, it will consume you.
I can feel it already, winding through the Cafe, filling the spaces they left behind. It’s in the way we talk, the way we move, the weight pressing down on all of us. Some of you are holding it in, trying to stay strong. Others are running, desperate to leave it all behind. But this isn’t something you can muscle through. It’s not something you can outrun. If you need someone to talk to, I’ll be here. If you need someone to sit with you in silence, I’ll be here. We don’t have to go through this alone.
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So please, whatever you’re feeling, don’t bury it. Don’t let it eat away at you until there’s nothing left. Mourn. Grieve. Cry if you need to. Scream if you have to. But don’t carry this alone. And don’t pretend you aren’t. Because once you start down that road, it’s hard to turn back.
Tomorrow, we say goodbye. But today? I’m here. The day after? Still here. Always. If you need me... just ask.
Peace, love, and Joy
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