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Oh there were many more but they are still painful to dwell on. Memories are easier to spend time in than a photo - at least for me. I guess a photo doesn't conceal the reality. But a memory is your mind taking a journey, through a filter

Yeah, the filters. We have a heap of photos on the kitchen table right now I'm trying to sort. I feel such longing for those days, such nostalgia. But I'm also doing a massive cull so they don't take up much space - including photos I'd rather not see again, because they are of people I no longer see or care about! It's a mission.

I can imagine how painful it is to revisit those times - the joy of it, tangled up in old grief, even though time has passed and you are in a happy relationship now. That hurt still bounces around I'm sure.