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“Grief doesn't ever really leave. It becomes a part of your story, but it doesn't have to define it.”
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“I never know when I'll sense Reid's presence. It isn't in a toothbrush left behind or a frequently worn item of clothing. It's in the absences that I feel him most. It's everywhere that I had imagined he'd one day be.
For me, he is more than a body. I knew the soul, not the flesh. When I look at photos of him, I miss him, but not in the same way I miss him when I look at photos of myself pregnant.
He is a feeling. He is a feeling more than anything because of the simple fact that he died before he was born. Because he was stillborn. He is not defined by this, but the definition matters. I was meant to be his portal, the one that would lead him from his world into ours, but he left for another world, one altogether foreign to me.”
― Still: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Motherhood
For me, he is more than a body. I knew the soul, not the flesh. When I look at photos of him, I miss him, but not in the same way I miss him when I look at photos of myself pregnant.
He is a feeling. He is a feeling more than anything because of the simple fact that he died before he was born. Because he was stillborn. He is not defined by this, but the definition matters. I was meant to be his portal, the one that would lead him from his world into ours, but he left for another world, one altogether foreign to me.”
― Still: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Motherhood
“I always thought, somehow, that death would follow the rules. This was supposed to be a beginning; now we are at an end.”
― Still: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Motherhood
― Still: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Motherhood
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