No One Came to My Husband’s Funeral. They Were All at My Sister’s Engagement Party.

up. It’s being present in the hard moments, not just the celebrations.”

I looked out at the sea of uniforms, at people who had shown up consistently throughout Bobby’s illness and now in his death. “Each of you demonstrated that kind of love to us during the hardest year of our lives.”

I spoke about Bobby’s courage, his humor that never failed even in continue reading …