Nobody really tells you how hard it is when your partner dies. In a world where women are largely hated, it’s scary sometimes and hard to choose love and kindness and peace and safety…especially when all you ever wanted was just to be loved…really loved.
Read more#1000 words of summer with Jami Attenberg of Craft Talk—Day 1….a letter
You came to the door. You showed up. You seemed to care about my safe passage from wherever I was sailing into your welcoming arms. You made me feel loved. You showed me, but you told me “no”. And I know there has to be an alignment with actions and words, so I let you push me away.
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