Dear Boonie,<\/p>\n
Tomorrow it’ll be four months since you died.<\/p>\n
My friend Kate<\/a>?\u00a0 At work?\u00a0 The one whose mom would have said, “Get another dog”?\u00a0 Anyway, her sixteen-year-old daughter just got her heart broken.\u00a0 First relationship, like two years, and he went off to college.\u00a0 And lasted a month.\u00a0 Anyway, the daughter’s doing a lot of crying, apparently.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 And she said to her mom, “I’m not ready for it to be over.\u00a0 It was the one good thing in my life.”\u00a0 Looking at it as a 34-year-old, I can see the statement is teenage histrionics, but the histrionic teenager in me can really relate because that’s how I feel about you.\u00a0 I’m not ready for it to be over.\u00a0 I wasn’t done loving you.<\/p>\n Love,<\/p>\n Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Boonie, Tomorrow it’ll be four months since you died. My friend Kate?\u00a0 At work?\u00a0 The one whose mom would have said, “Get another dog”?\u00a0 Anyway, her sixteen-year-old daughter just got her heart broken.\u00a0 First relationship, like two years, and he went off to college.\u00a0 And lasted a month.\u00a0 Anyway, the daughter’s doing a lot … Continue reading Dear Boone, Part 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}