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The older I get, the more I have begun to understand

the words of my elders.

When my grandfather died, my grandmother was

devastated. I remember hearing her say in a tiny,

broken voice, “I thought I would go first. I didn’t

want to be left behind.”

When my father, then my sister, died within two months

of each other, our whole family was broken. Grocery lists

they’d written the week before were still there, but they

were not. I remember my mother’s shattered words.

“No parent should outlive their child.”

Long before my fiancé, Bobby, ever began to get sick,

he told me out of the blue one day, “If anything ever

happens to me, you will be all right.”

Then, when he died, I wailed in a lost, hopeless cry,

“I wish I could go with him.”

In the ensuing weeks after his death, I remembered his

prophetic words and I was certain that he was wrong.

I know he laughs now, because time has proved

that he was right.

Despite the tragedies and sorrows life hands us,

there is always one undeniable truth.

As long as we draw breath, we owe it to the ones

we loved and lost to live out our lives without

wasting them on regrets.

So…just to set the record straight, you were right,

my love.

In honor of those we’ve loved and lost,

I am dedicating this book to the ones

who get left behind.