She Said I Couldn’t Hold The Baby Because Of “Germs” — The Real Reason Broke My Heart

voice saying you’re going to be the best aunt ever, and I thought about how she had meant it, probably, in the way that people mean things before the consequences of their actions have fully arrived.

What I did not do was stay inside the grief.

This is the thing about loss that nobody tells you clearly enough: you do not heal from it by waiting for the continue reading …