| | In a New York minute, everything can change. Thanks, Don Henley. It's amazing how fast things do change, especially when you're not expecting it. You're just cruising along, thinking everything is perfect, and then your entire scope of reality is gone. I watched the woman I was madly in love with lose her entire world as the one person she was truly close to dwindle away to nothing. I remember the call, the driving a hundred miles an hour trying to get to her, and the way it crushed my heart when I finally got to her and she couldn't even speak. I remember the way her father turned his back on her countless times and she still took care of him. She had to grow up within a matter of weeks, way before she should have. "Derevaun Seraun," I use it everywhere. It's Gaelic for "The end of pleasure is pain." I stole it out of a James Joyce novel. It's starting to make more sense to me now. Our life is full of simple pleasures, but one thing can take them away and all we're left with is crushing pain. I don't know how she still lives the life of a normal person after what she had to go through. She keeps telling me it's all because of me, but God knows I've had my share of things that she shouldn't have had to deal with. If 3 years has taught me anything, it's that a woman is a strong entity.
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