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Thing is, I didn’t love Don because we were married. Or because we had a family. Or even because I was scared of being alone or missing the boat. I loved him, and still love him now, because he’s my person. And if I lost him tomorrow, I’d be heartbroken, but every day I’d know that I’ve had that love in my life, and I’d be grateful for it, whether it lasted for a year, or ten, or fifty.’
‘I think the fates are giving a different message today, Nancy, I really do. I think that they’re saying that life is short and it can change in a heartbeat. I think they’re saying that you never know the minute your whole world can be blown to smithereens. And I think they’re saying that’s why you have to grab every chance of happiness that you can find because you don’t know when or if the next one will come along.’
better to have an incredible love that was gone, than to have a mediocre one that lasted a lifetime.
She’d read somewhere that forgiveness wasn’t something you did for other people, it was something you did for yourself to let you move on.
Her friends had helped her see that even after the worst had happened, there could still be happiness.
They were quite a sight. Two older couples, two younger women, one man and a baby, and only two of them linked by genetics. It was an unusual family, but it was the one that they’d picked for themselves. And not one of them would have it any other way.
