“The success was overwhelming and exhilarating. But that wasn’t the whole story. While I traveled the country to talk to readers about death and legacy and love, my marriage was quietly ending. I was promoting a book that praised my husband, that recounted our love story, while, behind the scenes, something very different was happening even as I signed countless books with his name memorialized in the dedication. For seven years, I had not taken a single trip alone. Then, suddenly, I was in airp

Lonely Boy Memories: Reflections on an Absent Friend