The end of a love affair is often a painful, long-drawn-out experience akin to mourning.
The end of a love affair is often a painful, long-drawn-out experience akin to mourning.
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There is denial, anger and bitter recrimination as it plods its way to the wavering finishing line of finality and some form of acceptance.
The last rites of any affair are bad. But it is worse, much worse when the object of one's almost deranged focus has been present for most of one's life. Living without is to stare into an abyss of loss, but to continue is as dark and deep.
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The fag-end of the affair
The end of a love affair is often a painful, long-drawn-out experience akin to mourning.
There is denial, anger and bitter recrimination as it plods its way to the wavering finishing line of finality and some form of acceptance.
The last rites of any affair are bad. But it is worse, much worse when the object of one's almost deranged focus has been present for most of one's life. Living without is to stare into an abyss of loss, but to continue is as dark and deep.
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