I am honored Exemplify invited me to submit an article for their online magazine.
To give you a little back story,this article was very difficult for me to write but something I NEEDED to write….for me.. There is something about putting words on paper (or in this case screen) that make them more real. You see for some things I like to keep my rose colored glasses firmly in place. If I don’t write about it, if I don’t talk about it, then it is not really real right?
Wrong.
Mom even said, “you know you need to write about your cousin.” She knew if I wrote about it would help me prepare and accept things I have not wanted to accept.
Still don’t want to accept.
And to be truthful I don’t think I fully have accepted it, but I think my trip to Phoenix (which I talk about in my article) and writing this article is part of my journey in accepting that things don’t turn out the way they should be. When you live on the other side of the US from someone you deeply love, it is easy to pretend everything is going to be ok. The article is not as depressing as this short paragraph, but I wanted to share with my readers how raw that article made me feel, and still does. As for my cousin who I write about, she is still fighting (God I love that girl’s spirit, she always has been a strong-headed fighter) but she is currently in hospice care.
I wrote this article for my Aunt (aka-my second mother), who is the mother of my cousin, she is an amazing woman and I am proud to be called her niece.
It would mean a lot to me if you head over and read my article.
Click on this link, hit “full screen” read through the excellent magazine (my article is on page 19).
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