As some of you know due to my recently published Medium series on the matter, I unexpectedly lost my wife, Lorie Girsh-Eisenberg, last month from a hemorrhagic stroke caused by the bursting of an undetected aneurysm.
I have since found myself experiencing a veritable parade of reflective thoughts, looking back fondly on our courtship and marriage while holding random negative thoughts at bay.
Though this is no veiled warning — please do not take it as such — I believe I now understand the self-destructive impulse of the subject that propelled the following story, the original version of which was published on Christmas Eve, 2018.