Neil married Jinja.
This is the first in thirty five years I even think their names. The first I make it real. Neil and Jinja got married.
Neil married Jinja.
The word devastating is not misused. My life, my world view, everything that mattered to me, every dream I had was swallowed up. I felt as if a bomb had dropped and I stood amid the destruction.
Neil married Jinja, and I was devastated.
Yes.
That was devastating. That was the true mourning. That was when my life ended.
The person who came to the city I had lived in for nearly thirty five years, was not me. It was a shadow, a shell, the what’s left.