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“Something fundamental about your place in the world changes when a parent dies.”
“The person who knew me most completely in the world is gone”
“There is no word for a parent who has lost a child”
“The grief of loving someone only we knew is profoundly isolating.”
“Two years. Three years. I begin to believe this is simply my life now.”
“The relationship was difficult. Painful. Sometimes I am relieved — and the shame of that relief is worse than the grief itself.”
“I could not get home in time. I was not there. And I have carried that absence ever since.”