Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes.
No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
~ Horace Mann
And so was the diamond from my engagement ring - lost after 35 years on my finger. The shock devastated me, especially as the treasured stone was never found, and although insurance paid for it to be replaced, the sense of loss has never really left me. But it followed other personal losses that combined to teach me to truly go with the flow; that all things have beginnings... and endings; that your heart IS big enough to keep many pockets of memory of losses without stopping Life from taking its destined path.
The story, written for a 'prompt' challenge sometime ago is called -
ONCE UPON A LETTER
and it's in my 'Prompt Perspectives' collection of short stories. Sorry, can't put a link here - look in the comments below.
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A Meme-oir Anthology
Historia CortaA collection of memes, tales and quotes I have collected in the last couple of years. Older ones have come from my 'A Miscellany of Meme-oirs' and 'Seeking Serendipity', now being combined and added to newly created works in this 'A Meme-oire Anthol...
