"“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never loses. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by ( Read more... )

London was lovely. I honestly miss it. I would seriously consider doing a semester abroad there, or even living there for a while. The only downside is that the cost of living is pretty high; one would be quite poor unless they had a high-paying job. Marissa's flat would cost something like 1000 pounds a WEEK if her school wasn't handling it... ( Read more... )