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Reminding me a lot of my evolving relationship with Mom.

“I wonder if much of what he said was too perfect. It was possible that in my solitude, I’d created this friend out of a shadow of a person and brought him to life to fill a need. A dangerous trick of the mind.”

We’re so damned afraid that talking about the ones we’ve lost will hurt us as much as losing them did, so we just stop talking about them. But that’s when we truly lose them.

“You miss them. That’s grief. And grief is nothing but the far brink of love... but if you follow that grief, you’ll find your way back to love. You haven’t let yourself do that yet, and you need to. In your own way. So cry, scream, run, sleep, pray, or write love notes in the sand. But grieve. So you can get back to love, because love is a better place to be.”

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” Rumi

This is making me cry. But I keep reading. I’m remembering the beautiful stories of my life I refuse to let go of. The parts that feel natural to tell about because they’re meaningful to me and part of my story.