Storytelling: A Love Interrupted: nps_kwgmj12_1ricky

Since Ricky's death, Kristen hasn't been able to sleep in their bed. Instead, she sleeps on the pull out bed in their living room. "Every morning I wake up and I see his cardboard cutout," she says. "I replay that scene when the Marines came to the door and told me the news. I still replay that in my mind everyday. Reality hits you again, every morning. You wake up and still hope this was all a dream. I don't know when it will finally him me that obviously this is not a dream."