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Love's Heavy Burden

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Under love's heavy burden do I sink.

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"ARE YOU SURE about this?" Ocean crossed her legs, waiting for me to reply.

I looked at Sandy's empty bed, and my heart once again mourned her loss. I hadn't the strength to remove all signs that she'd lived here, so instead I lived with the smells and sights of her daily life