“Was it easier, he wondered? I felt like I couldn’t answer that question because I refused to let it get easier. I thought about her a lot – every single day – and if I started doing that less, surely it’d get easier. But the easier it got, the more she’d disappear, right?”

“Was it easier, he wondered? I felt like I couldn’t answer that question because I refused to let it get easier. I thought about her a lot – every single day – and if I started doing that less, surely it’d get easier. But the easier it got, the more she’d disappear, right?”

— Lynn Painter