By Traci Mullins
“You’ve got to let him hit bottom,” they told me. When he fell through, they said, “It wasn’t your fault.”
This must be what they meant by, “The longest distance is between the head and the heart.”
A mother isn’t supposed to outlive her child.
A very poignant piece, so much said in such few words. That phrase has been echoed by one of my cousins who had a child die young. Very hard to accept.
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Laconically powerful in demonstrating the haunting unfairness of mortality.
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Oh God! Heartbreaking.
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Life is so fragile. Accepting that may be a challenge to the head, but always suffering within the heart.
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