That’s how it ends. Thanks to anyone/everyone for reading. I intend to clean it up, but that’s all the bones and most of the musculature (malformed as some of it is). I wrote it because I haven’t read any comics that had this sort of outcome.
I wanted to make something that said 1) it was okay to be in a time of life (even if it’s your whole life) where you didn’t have a partner, 2) being someone with significance in their life was not dependent on having a spouse or children, and 3) finding meaning and purpose was a life-long thing and didn’t conclude with partnership/marriage.
The idea for this had been percolating 15 years or so and culminated in walking around a cemetery thinking about what would go on a tombstone for someone who WASN’T a wife or mother.
Faith-based content isn’t for everyone, I know, but Tim Keller’s sermon “A Reason for Living” (among others of his about singleness) helped. So did the podcast ‘Snacks and Good Company-Singleness,’ to some extent.
Tremendous thanks to Sarah, for her friendship, unflagging support, and listening to me prattle about NLL for three years. To Jo- thanks for your help and friendship and hospitality. Thanks also to Sarah Joy Adams, who I may or may not ever tell I wrote this, for her completely unearned support in my education and development, and for being the person she was/is.