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Slowly, awkwardly, with tears streaming down our faces, we reluctantly reached out to one another. Neither of us knew how much strength we had to give, but we were willing to share it. We gave one another something that most friendships are not able to give—vulnerability. Throughout our years together, we had built up a history and a closeness so subtle even we didn’t know it was there. On that evening, we admitted we couldn’t handle life alone. We needed one another.
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posted February 14, 2008 at 9:25 am
Reminds me of another favorite Erma quote, on imperfect families:
“The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.” Happy Valentines Day — even if the love you experience is imperfect, it’s still love nonetheless!
posted February 14, 2008 at 2:51 pm
That is how a great relationship is built: slowly, imperceptibly, one small stone at a time.
posted February 14, 2008 at 3:38 pm
sometimes that is how it works one day turns into another and before you know it you become one and life is not the same without that person.you take the good with the bad.
posted February 15, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Erma was SO wise in her humor, so “on the money” The world is surely a little less illuminated without her in it!