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The Greatest Distance
by Dawn Anderson
Monday, June 22, 2009

Rated "G" by the Author.

       
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     What Susan Sonnen calls, "a postcard story."

When did it happen?  Did he suddenly wake up one morning and realize his life was a sham?  Or did it happen little by little, day by day?

 Surely, that had to be it.  It’s impossible to think that a man could wake up one morning and decide he no longer loves his wife.  But why was it that he couldn’t remember the day or the month or at least the season?

 He gazed at her as she lay peacefully sleeping on her side of the bed – so near, yet so far – and it was then that he understood – the greatest distance that lay between them was the distance that separated them in their bed.

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Reviewed by Jms Bell 6/24/2011
A SAD END TO A LOVE STORY, WRITTEN WITHOUT THE 'AGONY' OF UNIMPORTANT DETAILS. IT'S SO...OVER. GREAT WORK. THANK YOU, DAWN, FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS & FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
Reviewed by Sheila Roy 6/29/2009
Dawn,
You've involved us with these characters in such a short amount of time. Nicely done!
Sheila
Reviewed by Cryssa C 6/27/2009
A snapshot that snaps of pain and sadness...
Cryssa
Reviewed by F William Broome 6/25/2009


Your words ring true for those who love someone, but along the way one is no longer loved by the other. Perhaps it is today's obsession with self. I am beginning to believe that it is a growing curse and evolving as a wider effect on those who want to love. This is extremely well written. - Chins Up! - Bill
Reviewed by J'nia Fowler 6/24/2009
Hey, that's really cool Dawn. Thanks, hugs, J'nia
Reviewed by Dallas D'Angelo-Gary 6/23/2009
One can feel the separation here, in spite of the close proximity. I think it's time for a little retreat to a B&B for a weekend. ;-)
Reviewed by Jeanette Cooper 6/23/2009
Dawn, my response to your poem might sound cynical, but I want you to know that I write what it made me think of. It sounds like they bought a king-sized bed. I recall my husband telling me one time that our kind-sized bed was going to ruin our marriage. <grin>
Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan 6/23/2009
well done!
Reviewed by Georg Mateos 6/23/2009
He lost his wrist-watch, and then starting asking himself "where the time is gone?", no woman will be apart of any man, not even a million of an inch if she's inside his heart.

Georg

Reviewed by J. Allen Wilson 6/22/2009
To say that I really like this would be an understatement; to say that I see sadness within these lines is true. the emotional picture you paint here is very deep and moving...as always, you witing excells
Reviewed by Rose Rideout 6/22/2009
All too often the distance between two in in the bed, so sad and all too often one don't realize it is happening until it is too late. Thank you for sharing.

Newfie hugs, Rose
Reviewed by L Hippler 6/22/2009
Very true. And well done as always, Dawn.
Reviewed by Felix Perry 6/22/2009
What an emotional and all too true short story. Well done.

fee
Reviewed by Gene Williamson 6/22/2009
Excellent story telling, Dawn, I like the "postcard story" idea.

-gene.
Reviewed by Ron Karcz 6/22/2009
Now that's 'heavy'...very, very heavy. Not only that but it's very good. I'm forwarding this to someone from my past along with a note, "Now I know what happened."

Ron
Reviewed by Christine Alwin 6/22/2009
ouch....sadness and too often true...moving words Dawn and hearfelt!
Christine

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