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califmom
living the unpredicted life of a forty-something widow
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I’m staring at the screen. This is the fifth time the error message has insisted my dead husband is alive.
I’m staring at the screen. This is the fifth time the error message has insisted my dead husband is alive. Status: Widow Relationship to the two children: Parent Their relationship to each other: Brother/Sister Is their another parent living outside the home: No WRONG Wrong? I retrace my steps. We’re sitting in our bedroom, his neck swelling for the second time. His lung rattles when he sleeps.
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I curl into your neck. Burying myself in you.
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I’m staring at the screen. This is the fifth time the error message has insisted my dead husband is alive.
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I can’t make the words in my head today; visibility is low.
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