How to Grieve When You Can’t Say Goodbye

Covid took my fiance. I’m still learning to let go.

Monica Hickson
ZORA
Published in
4 min readSep 2, 2020

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Holding hands at the hospital.
Photo: subman/Getty Images

“There is no me without you” — a cliché that is often referred to when speaking about lovers. Looking at his pictures defined a time in my life that was incredible, and for some reason, I thought that I had been the source of my own happiness. It was long after he died that I realized that I was not the one…

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Monica Hickson
ZORA
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