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Let us hope that the man I saw swerve into a big rig survives to read this sentence.
Let us hope that the man I saw swerve into a big rig survives to read this sentence.
When you said I wasn't allowed to say anything at the funeral because it would be "improper," I knew I hated you.
As I held my son back while he was screaming at his dead mother, I had the strangest feeling I had seen this exact scene in a movie.
And after I confessed my love for him, he stated that he was flattered and we changed the subject.
At six-years-old my friends passed around a discarded, lit cigarette smoking it perfectly while I couldn't take a drag properly no matter how hard I tried.
Only then did I realize how much I had when she told her daughter they lost everything in the fire.
I cried not because of the amount of the inheritance, but because I can't cash it in to bring her back.
The nine year old said he had moved on from his best friend, who was killed by a falling branch a year ago, but as he stared at the spot where he died, I knew he hadn't.
I will never live in a world as bright and beautiful and alive as I did when I was six.
The fact that I continued running past him for five miles is more symbolic to me than the fact that I started bawling the moment I was in the confines of my home.
When I called my friend after her husband died, I didn't think that she would end up consoling me.
She looked up from her toy and said, "Daddy, why do you get so angry?"
Today I threw out the leftovers from the last time we hung out and it is taking all I have not to put them back in the fridge, so that I can pretend he never left.
I will always regret not being by the side of my 9 year old brother, my best friend, the day he died of Leukemia.
I wouldn't have been such a bitch if I had known I would never see you again.
After that horrible accident, my mom was on a ventilator and I was the only one who could understand that she was asking to die.
As I sat numbly answering the phone, i realized how unfair it is that something you have absolutely no control over can make you so miserable you don't enjoy anything anymore.
When they handed me a medal for saving a man in Afghanistan, all I could think about was how I wasn't able to save the other two.
As he was telling me over the phone that he didn't know me I came to the sinking realization that I couldn't live without him anymore.