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There was a version of me that thought loving another person would somehow diminish the love I still felt for Aaron. A version of me that thought that if I was happy, I must not be sad anymore, and if I wasn’t sad anymore, then I guess I didn’t love Aaron as much as I said I did.
Life is flexible and has long legs and a million different ways to kick you right in the chops.
I’m basically a polygamist, but nobody can put me in jail for it because one of them is dead.
There will be unimaginable joy and incomprehensible tragedy.
Waiting for the perfect conditions is a waste of what limited time you have on this earth.
He spent the last four years of his life finding ways to make me smile.
Unexpected goodness is as large and overwhelming as unexpected tragedy.
It is completely bonkers that after we’ve had our heart put through a meat grinder, we just gather up the chunks and say, “Well, let’s try again!”
at twenty-two you are actually pretty much a zygote, all things considered.
