• Now I don’t know what to say. It was easier when I just imagined you. I  even imagined you talking back to me. We’d have long conversations, the  two of us. It was almost like you were there. I could hear you, I could  see you, smell you. I could hear your voice. Sometimes your voice would  wake me up. It would wake me up in the middle of the night, just like  you were in the room with me.

    Now I don’t know what to say. It was easier when I just imagined you. I even imagined you talking back to me. We’d have long conversations, the two of us. It was almost like you were there. I could hear you, I could see you, smell you. I could hear your voice. Sometimes your voice would wake me up. It would wake me up in the middle of the night, just like you were in the room with me.