Putting and pulling together

Sometimes you get hit by something so unexpected that all you can do is try to block out all the questions. What does this mean? Why didn't I realise this before? Was there something I could have done? Where do I go from here?

It's as if -- close to completing the puzzle -- I realise that there are not enough pieces left. Worse, that I'd been putting together the puzzle wrongly from the very start.

The only thing I can do -- short of falling apart -- is just to trust, even when it's almost impossible to believe.

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