Her happily ever after took her on a journey away from me, and even though I don’t entirely understand that choice, I don’t condemn her for it. It’s a defining event in my life; I am who I am—strong, resilient, a survivor—because of it. When I was in eighth grade, my mother and I were […]
If you believe in soul mates, you stay with the one you think is yours, no matter how bad it gets, because the alternative is too desolate to contemplate. When I was 16 years old, I found a battered copy of The Bridge Across Forever at my favorite used bookstore. It was on the New […]
The love for what I’ve lost magnifies the love for what is now. Every day as I love this baby in my lap, I think of my other baby. Poor older brother, poor missing one…The love for the first magnifies the love for the second, and vice versa. – Elizabeth McCracken, An Exact Replica of […]
