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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