My Husband Got Me a New iPad. I Haven’t Told My Boyfriend Yet.

Melissa Gould
Hello, Love
Published in
4 min readMar 11, 2022

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I recently received a new gift from my late husband. An iPad. I have been using his since he died almost 9 years ago and it was just time. Games paused mid-move, the battery hardly held a charge. I like that Joel’s iPad has his apps and contacts and password. It’s been hard for me to let go of it. I’ve had to let go of so much of him all these years.

A friend reminded me of something. When I was discussing the iPad situation with her, she laughed and said, “Remember when Joel got you that Kindle and you returned it? I still…

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Melissa Gould
Hello, Love

Author of Widowish, A Memoir, an @Amazon bestseller 🎉 Named a Best Grief Book of All Time🎉 A @goodreads Top Book of 2021 🎉 More at MelissaGouldAuthor.com