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“No matter how much you know or own, it doesn’t change the fact that… you only live once.”

….

~ Austin ~

I have heard so many times that time heals all wounds… and I have always believed it, until I lost Joanna.

It’s been two years today, yet it still feels like yesterday.

Two years since she’d made me my cup of coffee.

Two years since she’d pecked my forehead and wished me a great day.

Two years since she’d made that call…

At the point of her death, giving me the luxury of hearing her final words… which hadn’t been slow like others, it was actually a scream… for help, apology and a thousand other words, she would have wanted to say… All in one word. “Hubby!” I could still recall the echo of it and how much of a wave it had caused to erupt in my chest.

“Wifey… I miss you!” The tears I had been holding fell freely now… like scattered rainy drops on a cloudy day. I knelt by her side of the bed and embraced a framed picture of hers. One of my favorites of hers…. It was a few months
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