Being left to carry both grief and logistics feels like a cruel joke with no audience. The kids ask normal questions in voices that make my ribs hurt. I miss being the second person in a private language. I was not prepared to become the only adult who remembers how the whole family machine worked. Love did not fail. Biology did.
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