“I couldn’t do it,” people say, loved up and secure in a relationship they think is bulletproof. But until you’re in a situation like this, you can’t conceive of the loneliness. You can’t know in advance how you’ll grieve. Can’t understand that time doesn’t operate the way it used to. Seconds are hours. Days are years. Your person was just here. Now they’re flung beyond the fringes of the universe.
