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You will remember we didn’t have that imbalance. You will miss the ease we used to have.

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Even if you laid by their side for 48 hours and listened, and held them and loved them through the nights and did it all “right” you still couldn’t have saved them.

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When the universe doesn’t bring them back to you, trust the universe.

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This is me moving on from you, forever altered by the lessons you gave me and determined to never repeat them.

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I feel you with me all of the time. When little things happen, I know it’s you right there next to me.

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When you lose someone, you don’t just lose them once. You lose them every single day, you lose them slowly.

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You do answer it just comes in signs I have to look for a little more closely.

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You were not ready to wake up every day fighting to hang on and continue with your life without the person who means the most to you.

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365 days since we had our last decent conversation.

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I chose to ignore what I wasn’t ready to accept: my mother was dying.