I really wanted the ending to be open and hopeful, but without the fallacy that everything is fixed and will be 100% okay now. It was really important - and sometimes difficult! - not to undermine everything that had already happened by reducing their experiences and history with each other to something that didn't matter any more. Because it's always going to matter and colour their future, of course it is. But I really wanted it to be left in a place where they have room to build and the capacity to build something new on old foundations.

I'm so pleased you enjoyed it, honey. It's a great pay-off for me to get such lovely feedback :)