With today's tribute by Rachel, my accounting of the life and times of Julie A. Newell is over.
During the past five years, I have always posted the latest "chapter" at the top of the website, so that visitors would not have to engage in repeated scrolling.
However...
Since books normally follow a from beginning to end format (and this one is now complete), I have taken the liberty of reversing the links to present the story in chronological order.
Finally...
I am aware that an obscene amount of this tale consisted of me whining about my loss.
I make no apologies...
...I needed that.
Along with the help of my friends, it is how I survived these past five years...
...how I struggled through the stages of grief, to arrive at acceptance.
Since music played such a major roll in helping me cope, I'm going to close by adding a final stanza to the second song played at Julie's funeral service: