"I thought I had accepted Rich's accident, even though I kept putting myself in a place where it hadn't happened yet...I thought that not accepting meant turning my face to the wall, unable to function. So now today I look up the word acceptance and the definition is 'to receive gladly' and that doesn't sound right. I flip to the back, and look up its earliest root, 'to grasp,' and discover this comes from the old English for 'a thread used in weaving,' and bingo, that's it. You can't keep pulling out the thread. You have to weave it in and then you have to go on weaving."
--Abigail Thomas, Three Dog Life, a memoir of building a new life after her husband goes out to walk the dog, is hit by a car, and is left without short term memory
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