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Readers of this blog have been informed of the progress I am making as I walk through the darkness of grief and intense pain over the loss of my dear bride, Kathy Anne.<\/p>\n

The progress is real and for that I am glad to report I am doing better each day. However …<\/p>\n

I have discovered a flaw in the emotional armor I have developed. It presented itself to me while Toby the Puppy and I were taking a quick stroll around our Princeton, Texas, block. It came in the form of having to tell someone who didn’t know about the loss my family and I have suffered.<\/p>\n

A couple lives about six houses west of us. Puppy and I approached them as they worked in their driveway. Husband asked, “Where’s your better half? All I have seen is you lately.” I gulped, caught my breath and collected myself before telling him and his wife and daughter, “I lost her in February to cancer.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I have been able to keep my emotions more or less in check for the past week or so. It’s getting easier … until I have to tell someone who doesn’t know the story.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I walked through the quick version of the events that started this past autumn, then through the brain cancer diagnosis Kathy Anne received the day after Christmas, her post-surgery rehab stint and then the seizure that ultimately took her from us.<\/p>\n

Telling that story — even in its abbreviated form — proved to be a difficult task this evening.<\/p>\n

You know what? I got through even that struggle with relative ease compared to what I likely would have experienced, say, a month or two ago.<\/p>\n

The journey continues.<\/p>\n\n

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