How a visit to the Museum of Broken Relationships helped one woman figure out a plan to feel better about her life.
, but each ends with at least one unreliable narrator. The details of grief conveyed in the stories don’t offer explication so much as supplication—see how it was before it broke me, see how I still suffer. Even in one or two short paragraphs, one can sense the writer’s satisfaction. Here is their heartbreak, under the lights, presented with a beginning, a middle, and an end. This was just the kind of narrative arc I, too, needed.
Philosophers, scientists, and artists like Grubišić know, that grief feels better when it is validated, shared, witnessed. As the poet David Whyte wrote, “Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.”Eliza McGraw, used with permission. While pounding the ring does sound satisfying, it wasn’t really the sentiment I was going for. A friend told me about a woman who pawned her ring after her breakup. She received quite a lot of cash, which she handed over to the first homeless person she saw. I loved that, but my ring was pretty chintzy—we used to joke it was like the hoop on a soda can top—and because we were still in pandemic lockdown in D.C., pawn shops were closed. Where I really wanted to go was the river.
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