This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir (Memoir of Loss and Love)

by Cecily Strong

It was as if she was showing me the best parts of myself, which are sometimes harder to pinpoint when everything is disorganized. And harder to see because the lows are so much louder than the highs. I’m trying my best these days to give them equal weight.

I don’t want to ever be stuck in that very sad trap of thinking your happiness lives in your memories now.