Personal Stories

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A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Silent Acceptance

Ever since you left, my life has felt hollow – as if all meaning drained out of every breath.

There are still

A few days ago, a neighbourhood cat brought four tiny white kittens to our house and kept them under our bed.

She made herself at home, resting, feeding and moving in and out like she belonged here.

We didn’t mind.

A few weeks ago, I wished something bad for myself. In the back of my mind, I was quietly saying that I wanted something I called “death.” But it wasn’t nothing – it wasn’t meaningless. It was because there was

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I don’t remember exactly how old I was, but I still remember that day as clearly as the sun of those summer afternoons.

I lived with my grandfather, grandmother, father,

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it always starts the same way.
a quiet urge that says, “this isn’t quite it yet.”
I don’t know where it comes from, but it lives somewhere deep — between my ribs and my spine. it doesn’t yell. it hums.

We met in college — two souls trying to find meaning in a world that often felt too loud, too demanding, too uncertain. We were friends before we were anything else; we had a similar sense of humor, music preferences,

There’s a monster in my mind that I want to lose them

Are you ever worried about being nervous about everything, and then