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Aimee Williams
- Apr 18, 2019
- 2 min
Unfair-- Age Four
(With Aurora, 2019-- age 4) Aurora is currently four years old. She was born five months after her daddy’s death. Unlike her older...
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Aimee Williams
- Mar 26, 2019
- 3 min
Birth/Grief
Some memories resurfaced that I hadn’t thought much about for some time... thoughts of certain milestone moments in my pregnancy with...
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Aimee Williams
- Feb 26, 2019
- 3 min
No Comfort
(PC: Joanna Samples, 4/2014) It boggles my mind that there is a negative judgment by some individuals surrounding widows who receive life...
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Aimee Williams
- Dec 25, 2018
- 2 min
Unpacking
Christmas 2015 I wrote: “This is my trunk-- completely full. The contents include a diaper bag, my luggage, the kids' clothes, and lots...
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Aimee Williams
- Nov 8, 2018
- 4 min
Day One
I’d collapsed into an unfamiliar bed about 45 minutes before, my body 150 lbs of lead. My muscles ached because I’d been awake since 6...
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Aimee Williams
- Oct 27, 2018
- 4 min
Unbirthday
Last week was October 19th. To many of you that was just another Autumn day, heralding the weekend. For me it was my late husband’s...
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Aimee Williams
- Oct 12, 2018
- 3 min
Surviving
(With my boyfriend before Marion High School Homecoming, October 2003) Written October 2017 October 2003: I was seventeen and...
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Aimee Williams
- Sep 30, 2018
- 2 min
Dead Flowers
(Originally penned 9/29/2017, a couple weeks out from losing my grandma and my aunt a day apart and having a breakup a few days later....
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Aimee Williams
- Aug 16, 2018
- 2 min
Dad/God
A few nights ago, bedtime prayers started differently than usual. My five-year-old opened her prayer with, “Dear Dad…” I let Abbi pray...
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