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No Time to Wave Goodbye

“I hadn’t known how brave you’d been—open-heart surgeries and cardiac arrests, all concealed from me and our sisters.“

“If I am a sailboat crossing the ocean, he is the wind; and if I climb a mountain, he is a flower in the field.“

“Now, when I pin the twin toddlers to my collar, I murmur to the sailor-suited little boy, “I see you, Frank.“

“Mom is virtually paralyzed and pretty much non-responsive, but this nurse apparently did not get the memo.“

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“Seemingly frozen, Jerry now stood up ramrod straight on the bimah, wondering why some of his ideas had abandoned him.”

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“A homesickness for a home to which you cannot return; the nostalgia, yearning, grief for the lost places of your past.”

“I am not the only one battling demons. We are the remains of the day. The longing and horror of despair.”