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Dear Ave, I married Tom two days ago, May 4, 2024. It was at Nymans National Trust Garden, where I’d always wanted to marry him. We had our first kiss there. That place is unbelievably beautiful. You told Tom in August 2022, just after you’d started your chemo: “Please look after my daughter for me.”…
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Dear Ave, I went home to see you, but I didn’t expect to leave with you gone. So many things happened in the last weeks of your life. All I can write about is what happened with us. And I’m not ready to write about all of it. But there are things that I never…
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Dear Ave, You died around 2:40pm on a Friday afternoon, a day before Chinese New Year. I do not remember the weather, even though everyday that we were in hospital I would lift up the blinds and look out. I remember mostly sunny days while we were there. I think it was sunny too when…