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I feel the Wonder setting in Over where I’m going and where I’ve been And by the way when I kneel to pray It never seems You’re there. And I’ll admit that I do not try When it’s easier to sit dow...

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In the summer Darrin bought a house. After that the deployments began. In total we would experience 6 deployments together. He was done with school, and his promotion had gone though. There was n...

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I talked to my boss and arranged to have every Friday off for the next three months, until my lease was up, and then I would be quitting. Every Thursday Evening I would rush home, get everything ...

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The first thing I did when Darrin told me he was leaving was cry. And then I got mad. And then I bought a dog. I was fed up and done with falling in love with people only to have them abandon me,...

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My nanny position was short lived. I ended up taking a job in the file room of my dad’s medical office. This meant I got to wear scrubs and since I was ‘office princess’ I got to make up my own h...

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By the end of the Summer I had decided it was time to move on from Firehouse Subs and part-time preschool. I got a job working as a nanny out of Blacksburg, a full hour away from Darrin’s house a...

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I saw him three times that next week. Although on paper we measured up as completely incompatible there was something deeper there. Darrin was in one of the darkest stages of his life. His fathe...

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On the last weekend in July, 2005, I got fed up with a guy I had been casually dating since May. I was really, really mad. I was so mad I made a crazy decision: I was going out. I’d show him. I’...

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In 2005 I was 24 years old. I lived at home with my parents and worked two jobs. One as a Nursery School teacher and one making sandwiches at Firehouse Subs. I loved both of my jobs. Because I ch...

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