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#16) The Rollercoaster

#16) The Rollercoaster

The second story in a series on devastating heartbreak

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Amy Siskind
Mar 20, 2022
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I want to tell you that I am the heroine of my story. That after I wrote Four Sundays and put words down on a page, I started my healing process and moved away from Tara. Unfortunately for me, I did not. Remembering and reliving the experience today is still gut wrenching. I want to shake the me of a decade ago and say, Make a run for it! But the me of then wouldn’t have listened: I had to live through the heartache, and the rollercoaster ride of love, which was just beginning.

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