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Through spare, intimate prose, Cindy Roman examines the fragile beauty of caregiving and the ways love persists amid forgetting. Her ongoing series Who Am I? traces the tender, complicated journey of remembering and letting go.
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The Choice That Changed Everything (opens the original)
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Sometimes the choices we make have long lasting consequences. Consequences no one could have anticipated.Today, we find ourselves in the throes of a consequence due to a choice Frank made as soon as I moved in with him four years ago.Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="button primary" type=
Writing About Not Writing (opens the original)
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The Place Beside Him (opens the original)
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Humanity (opens the original)
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Forgetting Me (opens the original)
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“Sweetheart, I keep getting a phone message from a Cindy Roman. Though the name seems familiar, I’m not making the connection. Might you know anything about her?” the text read.It took me a moment to realize he was texting about me. Talk about a knife through the heart. At least he wrote to a sweetheart. I’m not really sure who he thought he was texting.I didn’t respond<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fe
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