Word: greg
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...herself through the day, she's keeping a diary for the first time since high school. The story she spins recasts the past in a way that makes Greg's death inevitable because, of course, it was so absurd. She thinks she was preparing herself for a time without him: like the day in August when she asked him for the password to access the family budget on Microsoft Money, or when she inquired about how to change a tire and he sent her an AAA card embossed with her own name--not his. The narrative turns on the night...
...there comes a point when Greg's death begins making too much sense, when her grief loses its novelty and becomes scarily routine. This happened when her toddler Nicholas stopped reflexively asking for his father and started hugging people other than her. At first Nicole thought this was a sign he was adjusting, but then the worry set in. Would Nicholas' two-year-old mind begin to lose scant recollections of his father? "So now I just keep saying to him, 'Remember when Daddy used to do this or that,'" she says. And when they talk about Greg, Nicholas...
Nicole has begun jostling her own memory as well. She wants the pain for its intimacy. She has been eating a lot of chocolate and peanut butter, Greg's favorite combination, and shocked herself by craving Taco Bell, food he loved but she had long disdained. On Thanksgiving, after having turkey at her parents' house and dessert with Greg's family, she might just eat a late-night peanut-butter sandwich as he used to do. On Oct. 8, she watched a home video for the first time. Greg was offscreen, but that was precisely the point: all she wanted...
...Michele Orecklin, with reporting by Greg Land/Atlanta
Harvard junior Reggie Lee defeated Columbia’s T.J. Francisco 9-7 to place fifth in the 184-lb. class. Sophomore P.J. Jones (174 lbs.) placed sixth after losing to Greg Chirieleison of Lehigh...