When someone you love is dying, time collapses: past and present weave together, and you find yourselves in a room with no time and all the times at once.❤️ Mira Simone Etlin-Stein captures that:
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@rocketgirlmd
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All of this - so beautifull...my husband didn’t want to leave us /I am sure her husband did not want to leave his loved ones. We talked of hope and never really got to say goodbye. And then he was suddenly gone. I couldn’t tell him that hope had run out. This writer so brave. 💔
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@rocketgirlmd
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this reminds me of a passage from The Time Traveler’s Wife (highly recommend it if you haven’t read it yet)!
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@Liz_ORiordan
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It’s the love that stays with you through and after death. The love walks with you as you take each step as a widow and become less tentative in your life forwards. The love never dies. It walks beside you.
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@rocketgirlmd
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My goodness - how true that is. The clocks run differently in that land.
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@rocketgirlmd
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I don’t think Mira is on Twitter but today’s Instagram post is just as good as the
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essay:
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@MiraEtlinStein
, the author of the piece just joined Twitter. Folks should give her a follow and check out the other pieces she wrote, found in the link in her bio.
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