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Decay

Graceful

Riot

Their love lasted 27 years, four months, and six days. Each moment was a memory, a new experience they both cherished as if it were a newborn child. The simplest funs felt like a riot, the biggest problems never bigger than them; but like all great things, their love has come to an end.

After him she had no other. No one could take his place. And when the children asked she take a chance again on love  she said “My heart’s still full of him, there isn’t any space.” All that ever mattered was to ensure no moment in those 27 years would be forgotten.

With time she grew more quiet, more distant in her thoughts.  With time it seemed she faded completely into her past. Her relatives would ask her “Are you lonely?” “Can we help?” She would only smile an say “I have loved. I have been loved. I need nothing else.”

On the 27th year, fourth month, and sixth day anniversary  of her loves departure from her life she sat by a window overlooking a garden. She sat through the mornings, afternoons, nights, for days, leaving us helplessly watching her graceful decay.

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