They Were Gone Before I Knew There Were Two
Told by: Lori They were gone before I knew there were there… before I knew there were two. My beautiful twin babies. I went in
Told by: Lori They were gone before I knew there were there… before I knew there were two. My beautiful twin babies. I went in
Told by: Rebecca We met her last autumn in that tiny Goodwill, among the shelves of books that no one had a use for any
Told by: Andrea I found out I was pregnant in the 3rd week of October, 2013. We were so excited!! It didn’t take us any
Told by: Karin At 32 years old I had had two normal births and pregnancy has never been an issue. I was in a new
Told by: Ember From a young age my biological father molested me, and at the age of 10 he began raping me. I never told
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Told by: Lucy On 15th May I lost my baby at 12 weeks. We went for a scan and baby had no heart beat. 3
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
I am strong.
When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.
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