- …..it had now only been five days since he died, yet she no longer felt an affinity for him or the phalanx of shared memories he left behind. That was a different time—a different era almost—and she found that her life since his death had veered off on a whole new trajectory…..an exhilarating trajectory she never even could have anticipated just weeks ago. A part of her still felt gnawing pangs of guilt that she didn’t feel more remorse over his sudden and violent passing, but her stronger inner self reassured her conscience there wasn’t anything more she could have done to dissuade the bullheaded bastard from his serially self-destructive behavior. Death was imminent for him, just as unfettered happiness would be for her now and extending indefinitely into the future……
