Status Updates From Spectacular Things

Love and loss live on the same coin. It's never heads or tails but joy and agony, grief and delight, spinning in the air, waiting on time and luck to determine not when this chapter ends but how the next one begins.

She's long since stopped wondering why she cries when she does because it's ultimately always the same reason - she misses her mom. It's impossible to hold all the sorrow when it blindsides her like it did just now, this tremendous ache of not getting to talk to the one person she really, desperately needs to.