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- From: Andrew.Cohill@vtssi.vt.edu (Andrew Michael Cohill)
- Newsgroups: alt.support
- Subject: Re: does it ever stop hurting
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:17:38 GMT
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- For me, the wound never healed in the sense that the skin becomes fresh
- and pink and clean again. What I have now is a deep, ugly scar that is
- not at all pretty. When you move a certain way you stretch the scar
- tissue in a direction that hurts, and you are reminded all over again of
- what caused the original wound.
-
- I have reached a place where I accept the scar as a part of me, and don't
- dwell on it anymore, but there are many mornings, usually on the way to
- work when the sun is still low in the sky and the light bends a certain
- way through the morning mist over the blue hills, that I think about her
- and what our life together was, and how very long ago and far away that
- seems now. And in some way, I feel her presence with me now more than I
- did when I still bled so grievously from the wound. I feel certain that
- she has helped me through some difficult times in the past few years,
- some gentle quiet voice that I don't hear on any wavelength of physical
- sound, but I feel nonetheless, just a whisper to try to re-pay me for all
- the pain she caused.
-
- Andrew
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