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It was almost a week before I stopped wearing my ring. I was attending a handfasting<\/span>. I’ve been such a hermit lately, and it was incredibly short notice. Still, I felt an urge to go, so I made the time.<\/p>\n

I had gone to Meijer’s<\/span> to pick up some food, as it was potluck. Not much better than kettle chips. Anyway, I parked in the driveway, and just… froze, I guess. I was staring at my ring, and I didn’t even realize it. It felt wrong to wear it into a ritual setting, especially one that was a joining of lives. It felt like I’d be lying to them, to myself, and to the gods. I took it off and dropped it in the cup holder in the car, amongst the pennies that she keeps there.<\/p>\n

I didn’t get in the car all Sunday, and any of Monday morning. By the time we were heading into work, I was panicking that somehow the ring would no longer be in the cup holder<\/span>. I was deathly afraid of it getting lost or stolen. My chest would tighten up any time I thought about it.<\/p>\n

Another cliche, used over and over again because it’s true. Used so much that the intensity of its meaning is lost until experienced.<\/p>\n

The ring was still there. I’ve been carrying it around in my pocket, next to my keys and change. You can hear it clink when I walk, usually. The ring has always had such an amazingly clear sound… I don’t know what to do with it. Do I bury it in the yard, leaving it behind with the house? Do I take her suggestion, and have it melted down into something else, into a new meaning? A new significance? Do I pawn it, and get some practical use out of it, and hopefully let someone else attach meaning to it?<\/p>\n

I keep thinking that this would all be so much easier if could just get out to California, and start with the moving on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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