My Childhood Sweetheart Made Me a Promise at 15 – Decades Later, It Came True in an Unexpected Way

accepted unhappiness simply to avoid being alone. I told him calmly,

“I spent too many years thinking I had to accept unhappiness just to avoid being alone. I don’t believe that anymore.”

Later, I kept one sunflower beside my kitchen window. I realized the flowers were no longer about the past. They reminded me of who I had been before I forgot myself.continue reading …