28 years today

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28 years ago today, I was a 20-year-old about to take vows to love my husband until death do us part. Holy crap, did I not know anything at all about what the coming years would bring. Almost every bit of it was a surprise, for better and worse.

I’d like to say that I didn’t know that death could separate us early, but somewhere deep in the back of my mind, I always kind of knew that it would happen this way. I didn’t want it to happen…