Tag: relationships
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Il Cuore di Claire
Claire never thought she’d be the kind of woman to leave everything behind. For twenty-eight years, her life had been neat and predictable a tidy house in Portland, a teaching job she liked well enough, and a marriage that had felt, in the beginning, like a promise of adventure. Her new husband, Evan, loved to…
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Love of My Life, Loss of My Mind
There was a time when that relationship had me at its mercy. It wasn’t in a dramatic, movie way. It was in a quiet, everyday surrender that happens when you believe loving harder will eventually make you chosen. Back then, I thought love was supposed to feel consuming. I thought the ache meant depth, the…
Quiet Harbor Writing 