Written for Emilia and the Picture It & Write challenge.
Original image on Tumblr.
Red was always her favorite color. He had spent the past twenty years of their marriage buying her something red for her birthday. The monstrous hat. The “Flapper” dress she wore only once. Even her nickname!
Her energy and passion always amazed him. There were two sides of her. The one filled with confidence and the other darker angry one.
It was an even fight among her personalities. Until the diagnosis. The angry side became dominate to an almost unbearable extent so that she became a person to avoid.
On one of their last days together they spent on a bench and watched the falls leaves tumble towards their death. Her face pale, her body decimated, her mind a swirling mass of confusion and frustration she submitted to her stalker.
“Bury me in red,” she laughingly told her husband.
Oh Danny Boy! 
Really sad but serious work
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A very poignant interpretation of the prompt ~ Excellent! ~ 🙂
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Glad you enjoyed . Cheers!
DJ
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Awe 😦
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Oh, so many ways to take this. **shivers**
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How sad. Very nicely wriiten.
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Thank you! Liked your take also.
DJ
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Really like this picture. We had deep red leaves around Knoxville this year — at the end of autumn. So loved them.
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That was pretty cool. Really sad, and poignant. And the fact that she asked to be buried in red ‘laughingly’, was powerful.
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Thanks for your comment. It’s appreciated.
DJ
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