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October 21, 2007
here it is
Sitting beside the ocean... it smells so salty and nostalgic, just like I am five years old and on vacation for the first time. The sun gleams on the water, the sandy beach sprawls out underneath me. My heart is broken.
The sky is cloudless and blue. The voluptuous green mountains wrap themselves around white boxy houses with orange rooftops. The waves throw themselves onto the shore, rolling over eachother to be the first to crash. And my heart is still broken.
My sweet little girl sits beside me, her sandy toes slightly buried. Her big brown eyes beneath her red glasses, her thick eyelashes so long they press against the lenses. She writes in her journal and I in mine; we both squint away the sun's glare. I try to breathe it all in...this life...this beauty...this simplicity. I try to quiet myself. My heart is still broken, ever broken. I must prepare myself that it may always be so.
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