Prologue

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May, 2020.


Your face, your laugh, your smile had become like a silhouette like you walked from a photograph and left behind haloes of blackness around my world.

I can't breathe.

I can't sleep.

My mind is screaming.

My body is aching.

It is an ache that comes and goes, always returning in slow quiet moments.

I want to be wrapped in your arms again, to talk and laugh like we once did. I want you to see how your absence has downed to me, I want to hear you complain about something stupid I did,

I want to come home to the beautiful picture of you preparing dinner, or to the tired you on the couch, always waiting for me to come home,

"Mrs. Hertz--"

A voice called me into the reality i was nearly prepared for, and once again I was sitting in a conceding room with a therapist, who would never begin to comprehend the turmoil i feel inside.

My world was sweet like gingerbread but now there's a cookie-cutter hole right in the center...

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