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Kimberly Novosel

I threw his framed picture off my balcony just to hear my heart break.

break-up, heart-break, heartbreak, heartbroken, sad

Kimberly Novosel

I was girly and friendly and my family life was happy but many days I felt like I was on the inside what Chase was on the outside. I always believed I was a happy person with a sad soul. I felt like I had had tragedy in my life when I hadn’t. Somehow, without having experienced what he had, his scars resonated with me.

darkness, happy-person, love, pain, sad, sad-soul, scars, soul, tragedy

Kimberly Novosel

Go for it, my heart said, my heart always said.

brave, courage, faith, heart, listen-to-your-heart, love

Kimberly Novosel

I tucked the Camel coupon from his cigarette pack into my pocket. A souvenir of the moment where he said maybe. I would hold on to his maybe for as long as it would take, even forever.

cigarette, first-love, forever, love, maybe, young-love

Kimberly Novosel

On day one of the drive, I saw my first dome sky. The world was so flat that I could see the level horizon all around me and the sky looked like a dome. Skies like that will give you perspective when nothing else will. The second day, a tumbleweed blew across the interstate. I’m in a western movie, I said to myself, laughing. I found it so much easier to laugh now that this weight had been lifted from my shoulders.

cross-country, dome-sky, drive, life, love, relationships, road-trip, sky, tumbleweed, weight

Kimberly Novosel

He told me that when we first met, he had said to a friend about me: “If I get that girl’s number I will never ask another girl for her number again.

dating, falling-in-love, flirting, great-love, love, relationships, romance, the-one

Kimberly Novosel

It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered everything. It was like none of it had ever happened.

blue, growing-up, moving-on, paint, painting, purple, saying-goodbye

Kimberly Novosel

But I tended not to date men who ever showed up for me.

dating, love, men, relationships

Kimberly Novosel

I thought about how the past can become so small. An entire day, 24 separate, heavy hours, becomes the size of a tiny brown leaf falling from a tree. Before you know it, a whole year is just a pile of dead leaves on the ground. The year or so I’d spent in love with Chad was starting to feel so long ago, swept away by the wind. I knew that this year would soon feel far away too.

grief, healing, in-love, leaves, love, pain, relationships, the-past

Kimberly Novosel

That’s how it felt – that the loss of him had a life of its own. I lived with it as I could have lived with him. Some nights it was quiet and sometimes it pounded on my door.

life, loss, love, quiet, relationships

Kimberly Novosel

I used to cover my windows in heavy curtains, never drawn. Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwood floors.

curtains, darkness, hardwood-floors, light, love, sadness, sunshine

Kimberly Novosel

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to “surround yourself with people who are better than you,” and I was now living that mantra.

college, good-people, growing-up, inspirational, learning, lessons, love, personal-growth, professor, self-esteem