"This year is very difficult for me to run after I after I lose my fiancee. I'm not preparing very well. I have sadness in my heart."

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There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop the character of the fiancee. There's another strategy that one can employ, maybe riskier... Make the reader suffer the loss of the character in a more literal way.

— Junot Diaz