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I left my marriage to be with her and to be her partner through the end of her life.

And we had a few months of this absolutely incredible, soaring, romantic joy, even while she was facing terminal cancer,

because she had been very quietly in love with me

for a long time too. So it was this finally we can be together kind of thing. And then the story

took a very unexpected turn.

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That's R-A-K-U-T-E-N.

Well, Liz.

Welcome to be claiming.

I'm glad that we started by just talking about how the dead don't really leave, and then we can launch right into talking about this book.

I actually have these two quotes of yours that I'm going to mix around a little because

I felt like in very different ways they sort of grounded the conversation that I loved of years

of, I don't live by myself, I live with myself, which I really loved. And then grief is a bill

that always eventually needs to be paid. I wasn't ready

to pay that bill up front. Yeah. And so I just, yeah. Yeah, those are good places to start.

Yes. Which one do you want to start with? Should we unpack one of them? I mean, either one. I mean, I was thinking about, I think just wanted to say, you know, in this deep way that I'm sure you hear from so many Gen X women.

Because you're also Gen X, right? And so just that sense of, you know, I think hearing, you've obviously been

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