Saturday, January 10, 2026

Changes II

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Dear husband,

This is how I've changed.

"But the change was more than that.  She looked older, and some of the laughter had gone out of her face.  Now, as she sat reading her book, Hallorann saw a grave sort of beauty there that had been missing on the day he had first met her, some nine months ago.  Then she had still been mostly girl.  Now she was a woman, a human being who had been dragged around to the dark side of the moon and had come back able to put the pieces back together.  But those pieces, Hallorann thought, they never fit just the same way again.  Never in this world. ...

"Hallorann nodded.  "You and him, you're coming back.  Different, maybe, but okay.  You ain't what you were, you two, but that isn't necessarily bad."

--The Shining, by Stephen King

Your Loving Wife 

(Originally published 2018/09/08 at 9:37 pm)

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