The week it stopped being a performance
I kept arriving with an update, as if the session were a meeting. Somewhere in the third month I ran out of the update. What was left was quieter, and more useful. I still do not have a tidy ending. I have a little more room.
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Grief that did not look like grief
I thought I was there about work. It took a while to say that my father had died the previous year and I had been extremely efficient about it. Saying that out loud did not fix the efficiency. It did stop me being quite so alone with it.
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Two of us, and a third chair
We were polite in a way that was hurting us. Having someone else in the room, who was not on either side, let us hear the sentences we had been sanding down at home. We did not become a different couple. We became more accurate.
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