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when you find yourselves in the late morning come awake yearning For as long as you all have known me, it has been just me; but I have been in relationships. In fact, there was a time when I was engaged. It was an engagement that was called off; obviously. Things began to unravel the second summer of our relationship. That summer I would serve as a chaplain in Missouri and Kristen would work as a nurse in Africa. It was a very difficult summer. Not only was it difficult because we were apart, although that was a large chunk of it, it also had to do with the kind of summer each of us were having. I had a miserable experience as a chaplain. It was hard, I had to deal with a lot of death for the first time, and so on. And for Kristen it was a hard summer, too. She was in Libera; there weren't many ways to speak with her family and friends, and on top of that she was struggling with her vocation. We were each in our own little miseries...