Re: Modern Love
For that one single day, I somehow managed to let go of everything I believed about life and death and earth and sky. I forgot about the limitations of mortality, about absence, about painful finality.
Instead, I let myself believe my mother was there with me — in that piece of her dress, or in the wind, or in the crowd of 50 squinting up at us — but I believed she was there, with her own wedding gift of sorts: one more day for my “with her” column, which was one day fewer that I have lived without.
Julie Buxbaum lives in Los Angeles. Her first novel, “The Opposite of Love,” was recently published by Dial Press.
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