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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote2001-01-18 07:49 am

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I don't even know why it hurts so much.

I hadn't spent a lot of time with my grandmother in the last few years. No great chasm between us, just lack of current connection and problems with her short-term memory that made conversation difficult.

But it does. There's a gap there, some connection or symbol she meant for me that I hadn't noticed until it was gone.

You don't miss the water till the well runs dry.