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The Next First Kiss

by Marissa Mast in Grief, Hope and Healing, Relationships and Dating
March 18, 2019June 19, 2020
I always thought Nate would be my last kiss...My first love and my last love. I felt that we had that storybook romance, and I always felt so fortunate that we met one another so early in life. He was ...
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With This Ring – A Poem

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Grief, Hope and Healing
March 15, 2019June 19, 2020
As I draw closer to the end of year two, I realize I no longer feel married. That sounds dumb, since Rick's been gone for so long, but after twenty years of marriage, I still felt like his wife, no ...
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I Am Not Ready to Talk to You

by Jessica Ayala in Grief, Hope and Healing
March 14, 2019June 19, 2020
If I had a penny for every time someone has told me to “pray” or “find God” or “leave it in God’s hands” or any variant of that, I would be filthy rich.  After Adrian’s death, people have been quick ...
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New Year, New Gratitude

by Melissa Pierre-Louis Peoples in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing
March 14, 2019June 19, 2020
Sometimes I am angry. Very angry. One of the things with losing the person in my life that knew me the most, my best friend, is that a piece of me literally died with him. It was a hard reality ...
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Sometimes You’ve Gotta Fake Joy To Get To The Real Thing

by Kelly Cann in Grief, Hope for Widows Foundation
March 13, 2019June 19, 2020
Sometimes You’ve Gotta Fake Joy To Get To The Real Thing   This was me 4 years ago, faking joy, 420 feet above the Skokomish River on the High Steel Bridge in my home state of Washington. This truss arch ...
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The Night He Died, My World Changed

by Carla Duff in Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Solo Parenting
March 9, 2019June 19, 2020
I will never forget the night Jared died. The night I held him in my arms as he took his last breath. The night my world changed. Going to bed that night hugging Jared’s pillow.  My heart shattered in a ...
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Memories

by Eileen Clarke in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation
March 5, 2019June 19, 2020
Pat and I would usually take our big vacation around this time every year.  So I am flooded with memories that pop up on social media. 2 years ago that vacation was London.  This was a trip that almost didn’t ...
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Suddenly (Sadly) Single

by Katherine Billings-Palmer in Grief, Hope and Healing, Relationships and Dating
March 3, 2019June 19, 2020
If there was one thing I never expected, it was to ever be single again. I mean, I know divorces happen, but I waited until I was forty to marry because I wanted to be sure that Mr. Right was ...
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Guilt A Widow’s Best Friend

by Carla Duff in Grief, Hope and Healing, Hope for Widows Foundation, Relationships and Dating
March 1, 2019June 19, 2020
Guilt is a widow’s best friend. Every window I know has felt guilty about something along their journey. Things they could control, things they couldn’t control, things that were in no way their responsibility. Yet every widow I know has ...
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My Village.

by Marissa Mast in Coping Mechanisms, Grief, Hope and Healing
March 1, 2019June 19, 2020
For months now I have written about how much I have learned about myself through the passing of my husband, or more importantly, through his life. But I have also learned so much about the world around me along with ...
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