Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

by Daniel Jones

It has been a heartbreak and an honor to be Corey’s “one,” to have been, despite the failure of our marriage, the most important person in his life. Yes, we were heading into our separate futures. Yes, he had a girlfriend who would probably have met the boys in due time. Yet in the end I was the one who went to sweep the corners clean, to save what was precious, and to close the door on his life. Don’t we all hope that when our time comes, we will have one such person left who will know what to do and feel privileged to do it?