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I turned to writing after George, my partner of 32 years, died of cancer in April 2013, and I found myself living alone for the first time at age 50.

I needed to know I still existed after a year of being his caregiver, watching him disintegrate, feeling deep in my bones that somehow I was failing him. He was in denial so he thought he was going to recover even as his body abandoned him.

I couldn’t fix his illness, not could I jolt him into reality, nor get him to agree to palliative care, nor to involve his parents who were going to lose their only child. I thought I was crawling out of my skin. Through grief therapy, I found out I had post-traumatic stress disorder.

For 32 years, George and I had eaten dinner together almost every night, the
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Creating A New Life After Loss

In April 2013, when George, my high school sweetheart and partner of 32 years died of cancer, I had to either reinvent myself or else reconcile myself to leading a very lonely life. As a couple, we’d led isolated lives; without him I could go days without talking to another person. When he died, I was fifty and for the first time ever, I was alone.

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“Widows should be given baskets of chocolate truffles and vibrators to acknowledge that sexual bereavement is real. And big poofy new beds to enjoy them in because we keep seeing our late husbands in the old ones. And somebody to haul those new beds into the house because we’re tired of having to do every last little thing for ourselves. And there should be drop-in centers where people who feel unbearably lonely can talk to each other and watch funny movies together, maybe over milkshakes.”
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“Where do you live, where do we live where is our home? Under this tree, over the mountains, and beyond, the sky, a time-rider. Dancing colours! Life was more surrealistic, this short life than death, death was natural, not the other way round.--Mehreen Ahmed, Incandescence.”
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“Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even very exciting to fall in love. You just have to be interested in it. It's the same thing with food.”
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