原文：
Elena: Dear diary, I couldn’t have been more wrong. I thought that I could smile, nod my way through it.Pretend like it would all be ok.
Stefan: I had a plan. I wanted to changewho I was. Create a life as someone new，someone without the past.
Elena: Without the pain.
Stefan & Elena: Someone alive.
Elena: But it’s not that easy. The bad things stay with you.
Stefan: They follow you. You can’t escape them as much as you want to.
Elena: All you can do is be ready for thegood. So when it comes.You invite it in, because you need it. I need it.
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