Years.

Johnny, just stay, she had begged. But didn't have the right to ask him to stay, when she couldn't do the same.

But if this was him really dying–right here and now– her voice and those three words were the last things on his mind.

Baby, he wanted to say. I wish I had stayed.

Ft. Jonathan Toews of the Chicago Blackhawks

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