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• The ending is coming. I can feel it. I don’t know if I can take it this time. But then again, I say that every time and yet, every time I take it. And, I come back to her again for more. I will take whatever time I can get with her. I will do that for a lifetime. I will. I know that much about myself.

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• Yes, the tempest has passed, but the air around me feels different. I can hardly breathe. Nothing is the same without her. As the lone survivor of her particular storm, I begin to wonder just exactly what I’m supposed to do now.

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• I stand still for a long time, holding the note, and let it all sink in. Her leaving is almost palpable like a gale-force wind that’s rolled into my life in the span of a single evening and left behind all this incalculable destruction, both inside and out.

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• God, why have you done this to me? My little prayer goes unanswered.

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• I guess that’s how it goes. Opposites attract. He was the sunshine to my rain. He could find the best in an ordinary day of clouds and I gravitated towards his rays. He taught me how wonderful life could be and he gave me so much. And for that, I am truly grateful.

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• And, here’s what I know: I’m not drowning anymore. I can’t see my island; he’s gone forever from me now, but I’m standing on life’s shore again. I am here.

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• “You rush in, headlong, full of dreams and wishes, so far removed from reality that you never even realize you’ve married into a family and the Navy. One refers to you as the girl from L.A., and the other refers to you as the dependent spouse.”

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• When you’re married, you’re privy to the misunderstanding. When you’re not married, it’s overrated. I try to smile.

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• He stands there, facing the largest windows, touching the glass with the open palm of his hands, feeling everything, but seeing nothing.

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• Grief and cancer corner the market for all. Grief and cancer take all comers. Both rule. Do they always win? I begin to wonder.

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• You finally see the cup is really just half full, even if you believed otherwise your whole life. Both teach you to believe that bad things can happen to people, whether they’re good or bad or rich or poor or young or old, alike.

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• Grief is like cancer. It ebbs and flows within you. Then, it changes and transforms you. Forever. Grief. Cancer. Both force you to face your worst fear—death. Grief and cancer. Both undermine your optimism of life.

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• Events that could be construed as somehow inevitably related. Yes, perhaps there’s an expiration date on the said pursuit of unhappiness. Perhaps, things will eventually go my way after I actually discover what that way is supposed to be.

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• Yet she lays out this family plan the way you’d say, “After yoga, I’ll go to Lia’s for the mani-special and then wax on about hairstyles and hemlines until dinner.

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• The pain is too much, the loss too great. There is no more before, and the after is too devastating. There isn’t enough of me left to go on. Grief has stolen too much of me now.

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• I’ve told too many lies. I hold too many secrets. Who can I really trust? Who can trust me when I don’t even trust myself?

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• Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.

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• There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for.

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Katherine Owen (38)

Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Novelist

About

I write emotional romantic literary fare that’s can be classified as contemporary romance and/or new adult fiction romance. My latest release is a new adult fiction romance novel called This Much Is True that hit the Amazon bestseller lists by early September of 2013. That book put me into a whole new stratosphere. My utmost gratitude goes to my readers for this amazing experience. Thank you , readers!

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