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Victoria Ponte

@brooksidevic

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active: 2024-12-19 → 2026-07-16

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✍️ · Writing & Creative · 15 💑 · Relationships · 13 ✊ · Equality & Identity · 13 LIT · Literature & Writing · 10 CUL · Culture & Media · 7 😂 · Humor & Satire · 6 👨‍👩‍👧 · Family & Parenting · 4 🎵 · Music & Audio · 3

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#disability ·13 #relationships ·12 #self ·8 #divorce ·8 #dating ·7 #poetry ·6 #poem ·6 #humor ·6 #culture ·6 #marriage ·6

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VI Victoria Ponte · Heart Affairs

What Love Looks Like After Forever

After a thirty-year marriage ended, I discovered that love didn’t disappear. It simply became quieter, steadier, and easier to recognize.

Jul 03, 2026 · 2 min read · 769 claps paywalled #relationships #marriage #divorce

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VI Victoria Ponte · It’s All Good

The Shoes My Mother Told Me Not to Buy

Every pair came with the same question: “Can you walk in those?”

Jun 23, 2026 · 2 min read · 486 claps paywalled #disability #hope #family

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VI Victoria Ponte · Catharsis Chronicles

Ghost at the Lake

Every Fourth of July, I return to a place that no longer belongs to me

Jun 10, 2026 · 2 min read · 474 claps paywalled #competition #ghosts #divorce

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VI Victoria Ponte · It’s All Good

Every Crossing

For twenty years, one wooden bridge carried me into the life I rebuilt after a devastating stroke.

Jul 04, 2026 · 2 min read · 433 claps paywalled #memoir #family #disability

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VI Victoria Ponte · It’s All Good

The Thursday We Were Ghosts

Echoes belong to places where people have laughed, sung, and returned often enough to leave something behind.

Jul 03, 2026 · 1 min read · 400 claps paywalled #poetry #poetry-on-medium #music

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VI Victoria Ponte · It’s All Good

Sign of Life

The day I stopped hearing noise and started hearing evidence that the world was still turning

Jun 06, 2026 · 2 min read · 372 claps paywalled #mindset #happiness #perspective

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VI Victoria Ponte · It’s All Good

My Religion Had Four Legs

The horse that carried me after the stroke is injured now.

Jun 15, 2026 · 4 min read · 370 claps paywalled #disability #this-happened-to-me #culture

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VI Victoria Ponte · It’s All Good

The Man Who Kept a Low Profile

A karaoke singer refused to appear on a tiny YouTube channel, and naturally, we concluded he was a fugitive

Jun 03, 2026 · 2 min read · 356 claps paywalled #humor #culture #music

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VI Victoria Ponte · Heart Affairs

The Day My Suitors Met

A gynecological surgery, two online matches, and one very confused mother.

Jun 06, 2026 · 4 min read · 350 claps paywalled #dating #divorce #humor

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VI Victoria Ponte · It’s All Good

My Fourth of July Came in a Bag of Doritos

Instagram showed me fireworks over the lake. Real life handed me Cherry Vanilla Coke and delayed hamburgers.

Jul 05, 2026 · 2 min read · 344 claps paywalled #humor #aging #diet

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VI Victoria Ponte · It’s All Good

The Door Was Trying to Finish the Job

I spent fifteen minutes waiting for an ambulance. The automatic door had other plans.

Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read · 334 claps paywalled #humor #disability #aging

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VI Victoria Ponte · Heart Affairs

The Kind of Asshole That Doesn’t Leave

How divorce led to the most unexpected — and reliable — travel companion of my life.

Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read · 319 claps paywalled #relationships #divorce #travel

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VI Victoria Ponte · It’s All Good

I Live in a Foreign Body

Twenty-seven years after a stroke, I’m still learning the customs of this place

Jun 19, 2026 · 1 min read · 292 claps paywalled #poetry #poem #disability

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VI Victoria Ponte · Catharsis Chronicles

The Cabin That Remembered Me

Long after I stopped arriving every other Friday, I’d like to believe the lake house was still listening for the sound of my cane.

Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read · 289 claps paywalled #competition #memories #disability

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VI Victoria Ponte · It’s All Good

The Only Explanation

When the unimaginable happens, we search desperately for a reason large enough to hold our grief.

Jun 24, 2026 · 1 min read · 286 claps paywalled #poetry #grief #poetry-on-medium

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VI Victoria Ponte · It’s All Good

When We’re Old Enough To Know Better

I found a gun in his closet and still went away with him for the weekend.

Jun 14, 2026 · 7 min read · 275 claps paywalled #fiction #romance #relationships

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VI Victoria Ponte · It’s All Good

The Unbalanced Ledger

Revenge stories promise that every debt will be paid. Real life rarely does.

Jun 22, 2026 · 2 min read · 274 claps paywalled #writing #divorce #relationships

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VI Victoria Ponte · Heart Affairs

The Degree I Never Wanted

Nobody hands you a syllabus for dating after a thirty-year marriage. Mine arrived one disappointment at a time.

Jul 07, 2026 · 2 min read · 272 claps paywalled #relationships #dating #divorce

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VI Victoria Ponte · Heart Affairs

Two Confessions

One came when there was nothing left to lose. The other came before someone new had a chance to love him.

Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read · 270 claps paywalled #addiction #marriage #divorce

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VI Victoria Ponte · It’s All Good

My Body Keeps Making Plans

Muscle memory never received the news that my life had changed.

Jul 12, 2026 · 1 min read · 262 claps paywalled #poetry #poetry-on-medium #disability

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VI Victoria Ponte · It’s All Good

The Woman I Never Got to Be

I married my first boyfriend and spent thirty years building a life with him. Then I found myself wondering about the person who took a…

Jun 19, 2026 · 2 min read · 246 claps paywalled #marriage #divorce #relationships

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VI Victoria Ponte · It’s All Good

What Disability Pride Finally Means to Me

I don’t celebrate having a stroke. I celebrate finally stopping the apology.

Jul 11, 2026 · 2 min read · 239 claps paywalled #disability #disability-pride-month #self

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VI Victoria Ponte · Six Word Photo Story Challenge

A Room With A View

May-June Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Explore”

Jun 01, 2026 · 0 min read · 227 claps paywalled #six-word-photo-story #photography #travel

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VI Victoria Ponte · Heart Affairs

Could I Speak to Your Wife?

The married men on dating apps all claimed their sick or disabled wives understood. I wasn’t so sure.

May 26, 2026 · 3 min read · 176 claps paywalled #relationships #disability #marriage

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VI Victoria Ponte · It’s All Good

The First-Date Slideshow

I couldn’t tell if he was recruiting me or trying to scare me away

Jun 09, 2026 · 3 min read · 171 claps paywalled #dating #relationships #online-dating