This story is a reflective personal narrative I wrote in 2019 before covid. I blended memoir and lyrical storytelling, focused on the emotional depth, memory, and personal growth. The narrative emphasizes introspection and nostalgia.
I look up from my computer. Heavenly Father by Bon Iver is playing—my song of 2019. It feels like my life captured in a song. I’m pulled out of my thoughts and back to reality. I glance over at the bookshelf, a collection of her past. I reach for the picture of her handwriting: “I love you. I love you, Granny.” It was the last thing she ever wrote.
I remember asking her if she had the strength to write one last time. She forced her eyes open to meet mine as I handed her the pen. She began to write on the back of a folded piece of paper I had given her. I hold back tears as the painful memories rush through me.
“Been traveling these wide roads for so long. My heart’s been far from you, ten thousand miles gone. Oh, I wanna come near you and give you every part of me.”
I smile now because it’s our song. The signs—the scattered, beautiful signs—remind me that I’m exactly where I need to be.
I look up from my computer. Heavenly Father by Bon Iver is playing—my song of 2019. It feels like my life captured in a song. I’m pulled out of my thoughts and back to reality. I glance over at the bookshelf, a collection of her past. I reach for the picture of her handwriting: “I love you. I love you, Granny.” It was the last thing she ever wrote.
I remember asking her if she had the strength to write one last time. She forced her eyes open to meet mine as I handed her the pen. She began to write on the back of a folded piece of paper I had given her. I hold back tears as the painful memories rush through me.
“Been traveling these wide roads for so long. My heart’s been far from you, ten thousand miles gone. Oh, I wanna come near you and give you every part of me.”
I smile now because it’s our song. The signs—the scattered, beautiful signs—remind me that I’m exactly where I need to be.
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Jenna Brooke
This story is a reflective personal narrative I wrote in 2019 before covid. I blended memoir and lyrical storytelling, focused on the emotional depth, memory, and personal growth. The narrative emphasizes introspection and nostalgia.
The tone is contemplative an intimate, with themes of love, loss, and finding solace in signs and memories. The integration of music, particularly songs that evoke my personal significance, added a poetic layer to the storytelling, making it resonate on both emotional and sensory levels.
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