Mrs Fringe

💜, thank you.
(sorry for the broken reply, my brain is definitely not working correctly and I hit send halfway through)

It is a unique pain, and I definitely know that hole punched feeling. Sending

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FYI.

Thank you. Hard days, for sure.

Thank you.

I definitely need a burrito break

I started rewatching on HBO max a couple of weeks ago. It's my comfort show, and my husband passed away 4 weeks ago. Feels like a damned attack for them to remove it and have it be NOWHERE else. 😭

Def makes it harder, I had no idea on the genetics bc I didn't know my bio mother.

A friend and I were talking recently about the impression we had of menopause when we were young, the whisper fragments we heard terrified us, and now we're like...wtf? menopause is the best thing to have happened!

Thank you.

couldn't hurt--maybe howl at the moon and burn some sage while performing the sacrifice

I'm pretty sure it's just genetics, sorry.

you mean I'm supposed to move? do things? 😭

Nice piece, Barlow. I don't specifically miss Twitter so much (I like Bsky), but trying to write through grief and being helped by friends I've met online? I'm there right now.

I'm lucky enough to have support from some excellent friends and my (adult) children.

yes, every grief is different, and this? This is impossible. Thank you. 💜

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Thank you. It really is.

Thank you. I honestly don't know what anyone can do. I was mostly numb the first few weeks, but the past couple of days have felt unbearable as I'm having fewer stretches of numbness.

I'm sorry to howl into the void but this grief is fucking awful. I've heard others say that when their spouse/partner died they felt like they lost their arm. I feel like I've lost my insides. We were in each other's lives for almost 45 years--and I'm not 80, or 70, or even 60.

I love this for you.

omg, it is!

Someone sent us a lovely box of See's Candies, but no note. Thank you!

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Thank you 💜

Thank you so much 💜

Thank you 💜

Thank you 🫂

Thank you 💜