Dear The Person I Pretended Didn't Hurt Me, This letter has taken me longer to write than most. Not because I didn't know what to say. But because saying it out loud makes it real. For years, I mastered the art of minimizing. "It's not that serious." "I'm over it." "It doesn't bother me anymore." "I've moved on." The words sounded convincing. Sometimes they even convinced me. But healing has a funny way of exposing the things we've been hiding from ourselves. And