This is me. This is who I am.

[He states it plain, matter of factly, despite the bitterness at the edges of each word. It wasn't an ending he wanted, how he wanted it to be.

But it is what it is.]

It was...hard. Pretending to be like that with all of you. But in order to make sure everything went as well as it could, it made sense to stick among you to watch you.

Not that it went great anyway.