Saved by Jonathan Simcoe
The First Day of the Rest of My Life as a Widower
I don’t know much about it, but I know it will come with a bang. I know it will hurt like hell even though I have braced myself for years. Some days it feels like I sit and wait for it, daydreaming about what it will feel like. It can show up like a slow-motion video of a head-on collision; as a family comes into focus I realize it is ours. Other t
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“After Bébé drowned, my therapist told me that grieving is very hard work. It’s exhausting. I remember feeling like my body was made of lead. I would look at a stairway, or down a street, and know that I could not make it to the end.”
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left. He knew that to get well, he needed to consider his wife, his childhood, and his failure to manage what had looked from the outside like a great life. He wasn’t ready yet, though. It was enough to simply know that the time was coming
Ann Napolitano • Hello Beautiful: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you change again. You become a dog, a bird, a plant that leans always to the left. Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I’d been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food it was because
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My father passed away when I was twenty-one. He died after a short six-month battle with cancer. I watched him waste away in front of my eyes. Even though I was twenty-one, I felt fifty.
Many of my male friends still have their fathers, meaning they are still immortal. They haven’t seen themselves die like I did when I watched my dad die. I am a ti... See more
Many of my male friends still have their fathers, meaning they are still immortal. They haven’t seen themselves die like I did when I watched my dad die. I am a ti... See more
Kareem Rahma • I always forget that I'm old
