SIX-WORD MEMOIRS ON LOVE 
Several years ago, I read a book edited
by Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith.
Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak
by Writers Famous & Obscure: Love boiled down to just six words.
Here are some samples from the book:
“One diamond necklace later, I’m
single.” Michael Collins
“Wonder-filled, and never a dull
torment.” Diane Ackerman
Never one to ignore a challenge, here are some chapters of my love story each in six *pithy words.
(*Pithy is a term I became familiar with in my college English composition classes.)
That smile—no guile—stayed awhile.
Love letters in sand, washed away.
I was his. He was mine.
May
date—but we couldn’t wait!
Love, marriage, then a baby carriage.
Love
came my way. Didn’t stay.
Good looking. Good timing. Good grief!
Two
hearts as one—now broken.
Hugs, kisses, laughs, wishes. Over. Out.
Soul mates! Cell mates? One escaped.
Even when love hurts, succinctness tells it all.
NOTE:
I wrote this around the time my first husband left the family. One of our
children had died. He and I grieved differently. Finally, it was easier
for him to go find a new life than it was to pick up the pieces of the old
one. We had been married 29 years...experienced birth, life, and death
together. It was unthinkable that after all our love and unity as a
couple, we could not sustain that relationship. It devastated me. But I
still remember with fondness of our time together lo, those many years
ago.
And LIFE goes on....
