Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Dispatches from a Porch Swing

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Less sad, still sad

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Jen Deaderick
Apr 25, 2021
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I’ve been trying to not talk about it this week, because I think it gets boring, but I am still suffering with this heartbreak thing. I compared it recently with getting over pneumonia, which seems most apt. I had pneumonia when I was sixteen, and I remember the cough going away, and thinking I was fine, and then still not being able to stand up through…

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