He Came Back Alive ,But I Buried Everything We Had

My sophomore year, my boyfriend threw himself in front of me during a mudslide. The current swept him away. They never found a body.

I cried until I collapsed and ended up hospitalized. The diagnosis was severe depression.

His elderly mother lived alone out in the countryside with no one to look after her, so I dropped out of school and took care of her for three full years.

My classmates all said I was a fool, that I'd thrown away my youth for a dead man.

But I could never forget the look in his eyes the moment he pushed me out of the way. Desperate. And so full of love.