Conversations on Love: Lovers, Strangers, Parents, Friends, Endings, Beginnings

by Natasha Lunn

learnt that the loneliest place of all is lying in bed at night next to someone who makes you feel small, with your back to theirs, still hoping they will turn over and put their arms around you.

The shock ending is delivered in a few seconds, but the sadness chooses its own timeline – you lose a future in a moment, and then you are left to mourn it at a pace you can’t control.