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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.

"Go through all the holidays, birthdays, and voilà, it won't hurt as much as the first time around." - about grief

A steady, ordinary life can be extraordinary so long as it's centered around family and community and filled with love.

Mia turns toward her sister, grief tattooed across her face like winter's shadow.

The most beautiful people tend to be a little bit nuts.

Look, we are not unspectacular things.
We've come this far, survived this much. What
would happen if we decided to survive more? To love harder?