“It rained—poured, actually—adding another layer of morose ugliness to an already horribly depressing day. My heart ached with immeasurable pain as we sat in church—the same second pew we’d shared together as a family on many Sundays—and I listened to the priest speak of my parents. He spoke in past tense and it made my stomach coil with panic. My parents no longer are. Now they were. The reality brought on a wave of nausea that I could only swallow down and force myself to ignore. I had to lear...n to do that a lot in the last few weeks since the funeral; to disregard the looks of pity, the pain of moving forward because life goes on, and the fact when my parents died, they took a piece of me with them. “Hey? You okay?” Tommy nudges me, barely penetrating my new permanent fog. I shrug, never knowing how to answer him. No, I’m not okay. Yes, I’m slightly better than yesterday. Maybe, I’ll never be okay again. What am I supposed to say? I can’t say anything. So, I don’t.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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