Promise Me Sunshine
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“I think when you’re depressed sometimes it’s easy to think that everyone is depressed? But right this very second, there are billions of people having happy moments. I kind of forgot about those people. I thought I knew how everything worked. And that all of it was terrible.”
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“It must be truly exhausting to live in your brain.”
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He looks like the kind of man you cheat on your inattentive husband with.
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“Grief is a relationship,” he continues. “It’s the way we figure out how to keep loving them even though they’re gone. And in order to do that we have to keep on going. And going and going.”
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I am who I am because of Lou, but am I also who I am because Lou died?
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For a moment, I think he’s telling Lou that he loves her, but when I look up, his eyes are on me. It occurs to me that he does love Lou. Because he loves me.