Kelli Thompson’s Reviews > A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy > Status Update

It's widely acknowledged among those that grieve that the second year is often worse than the first. It's during the second year that you realize you've lost sight of the shoreline. There's nothing but emptiness ahead and behind, a vast loneliness stretching out as far as you can see. This, you realize, is permanent. There will be no turning back.