Status Updates From Finding Chopin

"Most people assumed that Emerald's life changed when she became a widow. But how many knew, she wondered, that her world was already irrevocably altered in the year preceding her husband's death?"

"The sight of his mother's body rising and falling with her every breath filled him with deep consolation. She was in her bed, and he was by her door, but the comfort of her presence bridged the physical distance between them. This was the same woman who stood on the beach, eaving to her husband and her son in the ocean, smiling that original smile.

"But for a memory to be meaningful, shouldn't it belong to someone."