16:54pm

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.”-- Louisa May Alcott

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the sunset was brilliant this afternoon, as the clouds parted way to allow its magnificent presence, as we arrived at the hospital.

there she was, she saw me and was crying and continued to cry and hug me. mumbling something while crying, i walked toward the desk and they set her dinner up on the table in the visiting room. her mind, today flooded with numbers. she ate dinner and the cookie and we brought to her. no words, only her own to her self. no outside time. it was a beautiful evening for it.


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During the summer we spent many days at a river, tossing stones and eating ice cream. We found a horse farm where the allowed her to pet champion horses. the week before the residential committed her to the locked psych ward she was home (August) having her favorite spaghetti dinner. it was a wednesday, and i had said, "let's start a new thing, and call it "spaghetti wednesdays". She beamed. one week later she entered this "in the psych ward" journey.
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"love you, Linds."

i said, as i looked at her and then walked out of the unit and went home.