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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.

At birth, each person unwittingly signs a contract to say goodbye to everyone they're about to meet. Life is merciless in that way, in its promise to end.

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?