Life of Mild Annoyances

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"Vincent don't you think it would be best if I told Jolene about this?"

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"Vincent don't you think it would be best if I told Jolene about this?"

"No I would rather you didn't."

"Are you s-"

"I never liked to repeat myself so don't make me."

"I would rather her hear it from one of us than find out."

"D*mn is because I'm a widow that people feel the need to disregard every word I say? I SAID NO."

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September 10th 1961

Thursday.

It came faster than Jolene expected it to. In fact she hoped that it would never come at all.

She didn't want to see his disgusting face but she knew he would bug her until she had to put a bullet through his skull.


She sighed taking a gulp of her whiskey on her desk. She picked up the pictures of her mother and father on their wedding day that she had perched on her desk in a booklet.


A faint smile graced her lips as she looked at the first picture. Her mom looked so happy. Her eyes were bright and her smile was so big and cheesy. Vincent was no better. He was looking at her with a wide grin eyes crinkled like he was laughing.


She flipped the page it was their first kiss as husband and wife. They hung on to each other lovingly in that picture both looking unwilling to separate.

Jolene scrunched her face in disgust as she saw the next picture. Vincent was clearly saying something very inappropriate to her mother who looked as if she was in shock, trying to cover her blushing cheeks with her hands.

She flipped to the next picture and saw she and her mother embracing in a hug. It stung. Missing her always stung. People lied about moving on. You never truly move on, you just have to adjust to a new way of living.

To Jolene moving on meant forgiving and forgetting and she couldn't do either.

She quickly flipped past that page to see her parents on their first dance. The look that they had in their eyes as they looked at each other was something Jolene always wanted growing up.


Such a strong love only...death, could break it. But after Iris was taken back to heaven, Jo shut that out of the cards.

Love wasn't happiness. It was suffering.

Iris suffered for years to get Jolene.

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