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Six years ago I suffered a deep wound that is still healing.
The loss of my first husband, Nicholas, is a wound that cut so deep the depths
are immeasurable. During the weeks after that initial day I felt so dark and
empty inside. I was pregnant with our third child and knew that I needed to
take care of myself but I didn’t care. I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t
move from my place on my couch where I could see out my window to the place his
car should have been parked. I wanted and needed to sit there and wait and watch
for that miracle of him coming home to me and our kids. As silly as it sounds I
thought that if I sat there long enough his car would pull into the driveway,
that this horrible night would just be a nightmare and not be my new reality. CONTINUE READING...
