This one was hard not to get all personal with.  The prompt is "He reluctantly handed the key over".  That's kind of what i'm doing now.  My spouse has spent nearly fifteen years serving in the Army, and I had for a few of those years myself.  He's medically retiring now and we're starting a new life in Denver.  it's bittersweet and scary, especially since in Alaska we had finally found the place I thought was going to be our forever home.    We plan to come back one day, but in the mean time I've been a wreck getting ready to hand the keys to my beautiful home over to someone else and hope that the memories they create here will be as good as the ones I had.  This also means that I'll be missing out the next round or two of won hundred word wednesdays since I'll be in the middle of the Canadian wilds somewhere trying in vain to remember the conversion rate. 

But there are way too many emotions wrapped up in that for me to do in one hundred words so I took it somewhere else. Let me say in advance--I'm sorry if I make you cry. I made me cry.  I might just be emotional. Who knows. 

So without further ado: He reluctantly handed the key over He took one last look around the small house, letting the memories envelop him.  This had been their home.  Where she had cried when she lost her hair beautiful flaxen hair to the chemo and he swore to her that she was still beautiful.  Where he had told her it was okay if she had to leave him, and where he broke down when she had.

This had been their home together and he couldn’t live here without her.  Reluctantly he handed the key to the realtor, wiped a tear from his cheek, and finally laid his wife to rest. 

Who else is gonna make you cry?  Wendy Knight, Author: www.wendyknightauthor.blogspot.com

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Jessica Winn, The Distracted Writer:http://thedistractedwriter.com/

R.K. Grow: http://www.rkgtheauthor.com/

Stephanie Worlton's Kreating Krazy blog: http://stephanieworlton.blogspot.com/

Leah Sanders, inklings: http://inklings-leahsanders.blogspot.com/

Laura D. Bastian http://www.lauradbastian.com/

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Amryn Scott http://wildscottkids.wordpress.com/

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Lindzee Armstrong/Lydia Winters http://lindzeearmstrong.blogspot.com

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