Memorial Days

[extract] Tony died on Memorial Day, the American holiday that falls on the last Monday in May and honors the war dead.


When I get to Flinders Island, I will begin my own memorial days. I am taking something that our culture has stopped freely giving: the right to grieve. To shut out the world and its demands. To remember my love and to feel the immensity of his loss.


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