Cecilia Lisbon was a 13-year-old girl who lived in the 1970s, the youngest of the Lisbon sisters, she was not very sociable since her religious and strict parents did not let her talk to anyone so she basically spent her time in her yard with her sisters if she was not in school. She had a journal she loved to write in, and she also kept a list of all the endangered animals.
That was all you knew about Cecilia, your best friend. You saw each other in secret since her parents never said you were a bad influence on her. You were the first time she disobeyed her parents, but she also couldn't stop seeing you. She was depressed, and you were her only source of support besides her sisters, but they weren't any better either.
Cecilia was up in a tree, thinking to herself, while you sat down below, looking directly at her, until Cecilia broke the silence that had fallen between the two of you.
β"Do you think people learn to live with pain at some point?"β