She listened with a keen sympathetic heart to a dear friend who had been out east for the last two months of her brother's battle with cancer. He was in his early 40's, with a lovely wife and two little boys.
"We had some wonderfully poignant conversations at the end where he would start sharing his reflections with me, as if to counsel," her friend said.
"Did he share big life lessons?" she inquired.
"Yeah, he did," her friend said quietly. "He said, 'Never let work get in the way of a relationship.'"
She smiled, and knew how awful it was to be with someone who was married to their job first.
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- Ali
- Fascinated by the movement of desire through Myth, literature, lyrics, religions, history, and shared experience -- and loving any good love story that arrests the heart and warrants a good sized cry towel -- I am a hopeless romantic at heart. But also a heady academic with a penchant for the feminine divine, who is rooted in a darling body wrought with emotions and feelings and perceptions of the vast and interpersonal relationships of the world, and effervescently intrigued by the dissolution of the fuzzy boundaries of self and other. More about me here: www.auspiciousprojects.com and twitterpated here: @manifestcookies
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