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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. -Anne Elliot, Jane Austen’s PERSUASION
"Don't be afraid. You exist. You'll never cease."
And so I decided at age ten that I was going to join the Army. I would protect all the moms from dying, all the dads from hurting, all the kids from losing their parents. It was all I wanted, until I met Elliot.
Home is not a place, Not a smell, Not a face, But a space In your heart. -M. White
"Thou art not false, but thou art fickle," I recited.
laugh.
Hey! There's our Cam! Fixing as she does!
To live Is to feel So you know You are real. -M. White
instead, I leaned into his coffin ever so slightly to whisper, "For in that sleep of death what dreams may come / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, / Must give us pause. Goodbye, my friend, my father."
Inch by inch, Second by second, Pulling yourself from the wreckage, Leaving it behind you To survive.
In life (Unlike death) There are few constants: The sun will rise; Your lungs will breathe; Your heart will love.
His kiss spoke the truth of his words, stealing my breath, stopping my heart, starting my life. Because now, we would live.
With every end Comes a beginning, A new path forged Through the pain Of an end Giving life, Giving breath That once caught cannot be lost. -M. White Otherwise known as Elliot Marie Winters
