She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

“the spring air just on the cold side of perfect, the late-afternoon light heave…”

“It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdl…”

“Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevit…”

“But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt."Gives y…”