Nan & Clete ... and Then There Was One: Finding a New Normal After a Traumatic Death, by Nancy S. Gibble

Editing, design/layout, and production by Alice S. Morrow Rowan

"I just finished reading the handwritten journal I wrote in the year after Clete’s accident. It made me feel, how can I possibly write about this?

"I once read that, before the written word, people kept an oral history, stories passed down from generation to generation. The part I found so interesting was the fact that these oral histories were accurate. The words never changed. As I look back, I can repeat the time-line of the events of Clete’s death—from the phone call I got from the police about his accident, up to his death thirty hours later—and never change a word....

"I want this story to be one of hope. I make no pretense that it has been an easy journey since I got that telephone call on February 20, 2006. It has been the hardest road I have ever traveled. I am a writer, and over the past six years, particularly the first four, I wrote and wrote. It was one of the things that saved my sanity.

"This, then, is my story." ~ From pp. 1–2 of Nan & Clete

"Thank you to ... Alice Morrow Rowan, my editor, who encouraged me to share my journals written after Clete’s death. When I would go into panic mode and feel overwhelmed, she gave me the courage to go on." ~ Nancy S. Gibble, Nan & Clete ... and Then There Was One: Finding a New Normal After a Traumatic Death, Not Forgotten Publications, February 2013, p. 145. Copyright © 2013 by Nancy S. Gibble.