It turned into decades.
I married Graham.
I had Jay and Sofia.
Then life made other plans.
It turned into decades.
I spent what energy I had left helping raise my grandchildren once they came along, packing lunches, sitting through fevers, and showing up to school plays.
The way a lot of women my age end up doing it, quietly and without much thought for the dream still sitting untouched underneath all of it.
The only person who ever noticed it was my husband, Graham.
He’s been gone for ten years now.
But he never stopped being right.
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