The sad thing about love is that there’s always a goodbye. But it always starts with a hello, and there are all those hellos in between. If you accumulate enough hellos, eventually — and sometimes pretty soon — you have love.
The goodbye is the hardest, hardest part, but on balance the love outweighs everything and the memories are sweet and warm and worth every bit of the pain — even the deepest, deepest pain.
Warren Bluhm is an award-winning community journalist, twice winner of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s prestigious Robert T. Wright Memorial Award as the best local columnist in the state. His voice was heard in thousands of radio newscasts from Green Bay to Ripon for 22 years, and his words were featured in thousands of newspaper editions for more than a quarter-century after that. He has had a digital presence since 2005 with blog posts he has collected in 10 books to date, and he has seven additional works and collections of his fiction.
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