Narrative Reversal

“I felt a glow like this never before and never since" → "I felt a hole like this never before and ever since”

The same grammatical structure and rhythm — 'never before and never/ever since' — is used twice: first describing the unique glow of the relationship, then describing the unique wound it left. Glow becomes hole. Uncle Jerry identifies this as a deliberate structural device.

The reversal is the poem's emotional architecture in miniature — the love and the loss occupy identical grammatical space. The word 'ever' (vs 'never') carries the whole shift.