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Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.
Marriage isn’t rightly described as a phase. Some are soon ended. Others last from highschool sweetheart on, til.
Ours started in midlife and ended with Burt’s death. Nearly 33 years married and almost 35 together.
Maybe, like his mother, I’ll keep counting each year going forward as another year in my marriage.
In some ways it will be. When the ache of loss is gone, I will have the memory of our life together.
this is our life 