The Day Peter Died
A love story of epic proportions, be sure to grab the Kleenex!
Filled with love, loss, longing, resilience, and light, this is a favorite piece from The Pleasure Report, by pleasure researcher and TED Fellow, Jaye Johnson.
Excerpt:
Valentine’s Day. It’s a day to celebrate the love that we have or the love that we want. But what of the love that we have lost? The more we love another, the more we expose ourselves to loss. It’s quite a paradox. Grief is the flip side of love, and love is not for the faint of heart.
Peter Fodera knows this more than most. He and his wife, Francesca, were together for fifty years. She died three years ago around this time.
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