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It’s been a long while since I last visited that place, I don’t know what kept me from going but I just could never bring myself to do so. It was like a moaning howl in the back of my troubled mind and I have had enough of it. I was going to be brave, like I promised her I’d be. And this time I meant it.
The place I was heading for wasn’t pretty but it wasn’t ugly either, it was a place full of sad and longing memories. I felt the same way about it as I do with snow, maybe because it reminded me of her, same glittering white like her hair and ice blue frozen rivers that match the colour of her eyes or maybe it’s because she always liked the snow or just maybe it was snowing when she disappeared. It was at that thought that I figured out why I was so hesitant to go, it was sadness and loneliness…
I was at the local train station waiting for the next train to appear, I wasn’t going to have to wait long as the train appeared after about 10 minutes.
The ride was going to be long, that was to be expect since the place I was going to was a cemetery that was in the countryside, I moved and lived in the city for two years and this is the first time I decided to go back to my hometown. As I looked outside, I could see numerous trees and meadows that waved to me as the wind blew as if greeting and welcoming me back. I soon grew bored from the welcoming wind and decided to reminisce about my late wife and first love.
We both first met in our second year of high school, we were both 17 and had the same interest in literature, and we would often eat lunch and read our favourite books to each other at lunch time and during holidays. Soon we graduated and were off to university, I studied creative writing and English and became an author while she studied teaching and became a history teacher. We both got married at the age of 25, had children at 27 and lived together for 62 years until she passed away at the age of 89. I had to go to her grave and apologise for not visiting for so long.
The train finally stopped to a screeching halt when it arrived at the train station, I got off the train and called for a taxi to take me to the cemetery where my wife is waiting for me. When I got there, the first thing I did was to go

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