Sam, I'm a Lesbian and I Love You, but I Don't Know How to Move On

This comes from Sam. He writes, I'm a he, him lesbian that grew up in a very conservative part of Tennessee. When I was 16, I started dating my best friend who was also a lesbian and I still consider her to be the love of my life. Her family found out about us and forced her to undergo a homebrew conversion therapy. They cut her off from communicating with everyone she had ever met - including me. She's telling me she's getting married to a man she loves and that she's happy. We are in different states with different lives that no longer intersect. And there's a note on this letter that just says, serious crying because I cried at the first