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The dining table is stacked with cards. Remembrances and sympathy; anecdotes and snapshots of shared encounters with her. Disbelief. Anger. Sorrow. Everyone has their story, and their memory, and their reason for thinking that sharing that memory with me, especially, is going to give me an insight, or glimpse into the spirit of the woman who, I just realized, was champagne given the ability to embrace you.
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And they expect me to grieve with them. And I do. I weep with them and hold and am held by them. We laugh through tears; we tell the stories and show the photos.
Then they leave.
The shock and disbelief still have me locked up. How can she not be here? How can she not fucking be here? How am I supposed to be able to go on when she's not here?
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Who am I supposed to talk to about this? Most of the cards and notes have names I remember hearing in passing over the years, but no close connections. No friendships of the kind that can withstand the kind of self-pity party I'm finding myself closer to throwing.
And no one who can grieve with me over the loss of the very best part of my life. No one who will ever know what it was like, to be so close to her, to share and be a part of the force that she was, to be with her.
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@northernbassist Oh, man. I have no words that will help and I not gonna pretend otherwise. But I hope if you need someone to talk to you know we are here to listen and learn how wonderful she was from what you say. Can light up one #cosocall sometime, I would be honored to listen, and to try not to say anything stupid.
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