Status Updates From Sobre el duelo

“My mother is desperate for a firm date. “After the burial we can begin to heal,” she says. I am heartsick to see her look so brave and so drained.”

“We have been so fortunate, to be happy, to be enclosed in a safe, intact family unit, and so we do not know what to do with this rupture. Until now, grief belonged to other people.”

“… he would always respond, […] I have no problems at all. I’m perfectly fine. And he really was. Until he wasn’t.”