After forty-seven years of a great relationship, courtship, and marriage, the author found himself alone. His wife had struggled with a rough fight with dementia. Suddenly, she took a sudden and unexpected turn for the worse, leaving him alone for the first time in his adult life. He was sixty-four at the time but felt more like he was forty physically and ninety-five emotionally.
For over a year, he had tried to go forward with his life, but when he was alone at night, his heart's emptiness reminded him that he needed someone to fill the ache inside him.
Loneliness is a killer, and he was dying from grief. He was dying inside because he had never been alone in his life. He told himself he would be all right, but he wasn't and he was fading fast. Then he found Heather. They were two souls drifting in a sea of loneliness and grief that found one another amid a building storm.
Is she the one that can pull him out of an escalating depression? We'll see.