A Few Good Eggs by Julie Vargo

Author:Julie Vargo [Jaulie Vargo and maureen Regan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061743566
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2006-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

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JULIE

My girlfriend Meg, who had never had a miscarriage to my knowledge, was one of my friends who “got it,” when she found out I had lost a baby. She sent me a CD of the Dixie Chicks with a note that said, “Get in the car with Robert, play ‘Cowboy Take Me Away,’ and go for a drive.”

So we did. It was great to open the windows, blast the music, and belt out the song into the wind. Just getting out of the house in a mindless way was good. Singing to songs that are upbeat and have nothing to do with loss was good. Having a friend care about me enough to come up with a creative way to share my grief was really good.

I still keep that Dixie Chicks CD in my car, and “Cowboy Take Me Away” is our family’s favorite tune. There was a period of time where I came to define distance by how many times “Cowboy Take Me Away” can play—from our house to the pre-school is exactly one rotation of the song; to the grocery store, two song’s worth; to the mall, too many times to count.

But even today when I listen to it, I think of my good friend Meg, who understood how to make me look forward again with a simple song.

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