Thank you for sharing, still wiping the tears from my eyes. If there was ever a reminder to (try) enjoying the small, “mundane” moments of life every day it’s the part below.
“There was so much I still wanted to do. I fantasized about the smallest, most mundane things—waking up in bed, getting in my car, waiting at a red light, grabbing coffee, working. I wanted to do it all again, every day, forever and ever.”
It's good to see this publication diversifying.
Not The Atlantic?
Are you perhaps looking for the article "Alone and Adrift in the Atlantic," published in The Pacific?
This was a beautiful story
Worth the read. The end really got to me.