The Tender Warrior

Imperfectly Perfect.

On letting go, letting people in, and the celebration Lee deserves

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Vicki Tull
May 20, 2026
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We never had a solid plan for after.

We had agreed, at some point in a long marriage, that we wanted to be cremated. There were vague discussions of strewing our ashes somewhere pretty. And while we were both raised in the church, formal religion hadn’t held a place for us in our life together.

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