From experience, to accept a big L it takes at least a couple of months since the moment you realise something you predicted can't happen anymore
Then, denial becomes resignation and you start to feel empty and to suffer any single moment somebody mentions something related to that theory. Finally, you start blaming Oda and hoping Hirata, Sanji's Voice Actor, takes his place (and marries his wife)

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Don't mention that name in front of me ever again