Tag: grief

"That blue stain was just a big fat negative in my life. I hated it. The next month, we got devastating news about my sweet son, the one who splattered it all over our carpet."

"I fell to my knees, and then to my back. It came from up from my gut. I could almost physically feel it moving to the top of my abdomen, to my chest, into my neck and then my head. I cannot describe the pain. It was like my soul was slowly being ripped away from my body."

"Mallory was never in contact with a person who had an active cold sore. Never. Nobody ever kissed her on the mouth."

"The day my Mom died I called my husband...Then he began to tell me a story about my Mom. A story that I never knew about her before because she didn’t want me to know."

"You want to know the weird thing about grief? It has no expiration date. He had passed away thirty years prior."

" I’m sorry to intrude. I don’t know you but I was just driving past and saw you crying," the woman said.

"I drove home crying. Instead of packing the car to head for a weekend of fun, we come here, to the cemetery, with broken hearts and tearful eyes."

"...And there was that earth-shattering grin staring right at me from the screen of my phone."