{"id":37148,"date":"2026-11-05T12:40:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=37148"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:46:54","slug":"a-fractured-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/a-fractured-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fractured Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most ghastly things <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That happened to Josie <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When she was at Cambridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was when she found her flatmate <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the bath having taken an overdose <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Annie died later the same day <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which shattered my sister <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for many long months<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Josie with the help of others <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Had tried to help her to slowly recover<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the break up of her deep love <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Paul had always sought a relationship<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which would enable him to live and breathe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sadly Annie was not that type of girl <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was as serious as I was <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But without the humour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her suicide note which was disclosed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the inquest some weeks later <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contained just four words <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>My Heart is Shattered <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I often believe that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> This changed my sister<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Possibly it did possibly not <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But her behaviours changed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And she would often vanish <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without any prior warning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have come to an understanding <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Josie that has lasted for years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I think that our church <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Means more to me than <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It does to my lovely sister    <br><br><br>Joe <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most ghastly things That happened to Josie When she was at Cambridge Was when she found her flatmate In the bath having taken an overdose Annie died later the same day Which shattered my sister As for many long months Josie with the help of others Had tried to help her to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37151,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37148\/revisions\/37151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}