She Spent Decades Caring for Everyone Else. Then She Bought a Ticket and Sailed Away

grief for the man she had loved and lost. That was real, and she was not pretending otherwise.

But she also felt something else sitting alongside it, something she had not felt in a long time.

She was still here. She was still a full person with a life in front of her. And she was finally, after all these years, the one deciding what that life would continue reading …