“I was beloved. I had been hoped for. Somehow, I was necessary.”
“I had been in love before, but never found it necessary.”
“I wondered if somehow, without my knowing it, I had been cast in a Lifetime channel movie.”
“I wore a groove in the kitchen floor with endless trips to the fridge, hoping against hope that I had somehow missed a plateful of cold sausages on the previous 4,000 excursions. Then, for no obvious reason, I decided to buy a footstool.”
“I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life...”
“Alas! I regret that I am taken from you; and, happy and beloved as I have been, is it not hard to quit you all? But these are not thoughts befitting me; I will endeavor to resign myself cheerfully to death, and will indulge a hope of meeting you in another world.”