Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother — even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son’s death because his death was ugly and unfair. You’re grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death. ✨ DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column №78: The Obliterated Place. therumpus.net. July 1, 2011.
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