Epilogue To Frankenstein

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Frankenstein slowly approaches the young man’s grave.
I miss you, you were my best friend. What I did was awful. It should have been me, not you. Everything simply just isn’t the same without you. You were innocent and just trying to do the right thing, you didn’t deserve any of this. No one does. You were just trying to help.
He pauses for a second.
When I started to create the monster, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I didn’t know what horrible things he would do to the ones I loved. This isn’t what I wanted. I thought I was making something beautiful that everyone would love. I’m sorry, I should have listened to you. From the start, you knew what I was doing was wrong and unnatural, I thought I could play god. You knew that

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