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| FEATURED BOOK 
NOTHING WAS THE SAME
A Memoir
by Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
Excerpt from page 208 It is in our nature to want to hold on to love; it is grief's blessing that we come to know that there are limits to our ability to do so. To hold on to love, I had to find a way to capture and transform it. The only way I knew to do this was to write a book, this book, about Richard. It would be about love and what love had brought, about death and what death had taken. I would write that love continues, and that grief teaches.
I returned to Big Sur, sat up against the cushions in the window seat in my room overlooking the rocks and the sea, and picked up the fountain pen Richard had given me years earlier to write An Unquiet Mind. Richard had said then, Write from your heart, and I had. I would write again from my heart, but this time I would write alone.
I sat for a long time, looking out on the rocks of the Big Sur, which I had known long before I had known Richard. I started to write. I wrote about the durability of love and hope, about a man I had been with for nearly twenty years, a man who had been my husband, colleague, and friend. I wrote about fearlessness and grace and the power of love. I poured my heart into my writing, and when I walked on the beach at Big Sur Richard was with me there. He was with me in the qui¬eting of my mind. Richard was with me in Big Sur, and he would be with me when I left Big Sur. It would not be the journey we had reckoned on, but it was what we had. We both were inclined to look yonder.
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