When We Were Widows

by Annette Chavez Macias

“Some people believe—like me—that we’re connected to certain people because they’re meant to be in our lives, meaning you’re destined to have some sort of experience with them,” Evie explained. “Sometimes we meet these people before we’re supposed to. Kind of like a ‘wrong time, wrong place’ sort of thing. So we drift apart, only to be pulled back together again by an invisible string when the universe decides you’re both ready to be in each other’s lives again.”

Sometimes we have to do things we’ve never done in order to grow. Because when you stop growing, you die.”