I've held off with this post for awhile because the emotions were still pretty raw and my feelings about it weren't entirely organized. I'm in a much more philosophical frame of mind now and feel I can do the story the objective justice it deserves. Around May, my girlfriend's mother became extremely sick. So sick, in fact, that my girlfriend was forced to fly back to Australia to be with her. It's since become clear that, while her mother will make a full recovery eventually, the road to recovery... read more
