I Walked Into My Ex Husband’s Funeral With Five Children Until He Saw Their Faces and Everything Changed

through recovery. You accompany them. You let them set the pace. You answer the questions they ask and hold space for the ones they are not ready to form.

I still have William’s letter in my Bible. I still have the old envelope, though now the papers inside sit in proper files where they belong. And I still remember the sound of the cemetery on that continue reading …