Hey Waffle Gang, I do hope you're well. My name is Mark and today we're checking out some more

Reddit stories and if you do love a Reddit story, why not consider?

Can they like, subscribe, maybe that notification bell too. Let's crack on with today's first

story. Much love, guys. Now today's first story is from a throw away account from the

Relationship Advice subreddit, and it says, I, 35 male, was incarcerated and lost touch with

33 female. It's been over 10 years. Would it be wrong to contact her now? Sorry for any

mistakes.

English is not my first language.

When I was a university student, I fell in love with Darya, not a real name, obviously.

She was the little sister of my best friend, so I considered her off-limits, but my crush

on her persisted and grew. She's one of those beautiful,

brilliant people who is alive and breathing to make the world a better place. How could I not

be drawn to that? One day she told me she had feelings for me, and to my relief, my best

friend didn't have a problem with me dating his sister either. So for two wonderful

years, Darya was my girlfriend. I should have asked her to marry me. I don't know why I didn't.

I suppose I thought I had all the time in the world. We were young and there was no need to rush

things. We lived in a country that isn't exactly democratic, and we were political activists.

I ended up getting arrested and going to prison for nine years. Please don't think I'm some kind

of monster for this. I don't want to go into detail in case it makes me identifiable somehow,

but we didn't hurt anyone or do anything immoral. What we did is not even illegal in the country

where I currently live, and our beliefs were far from extremist. I haven't seen or spoken to

Darya since the day I got arrested. My best friend died shortly after and Darya left the country,

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