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No Love Lost

In Aldous, Family, Threnody on 25 December 2005 with 1 comment

This is a bittersweet time of year anyway, what with all the festive machinery grinding away, making us all happy whether or not we want to be. Still, it’s unavoidable, principally because there’s a warmth in gathering with people you care for that can’t be matched in any other way, and so we’ll bear [...]

Weak and Powerless

In Family, Threnody on 14 October 2005 with no comments

It’s a week later, almost to the hour, and I’m only more confused. I’ve successfully sidestepped most of the endlessly pointless What ifing, though there will always be the penchant for retroactive hope.
I have, however, learned a little more about my little girl in the week since her death. I poured over all [...]

Gone

In Family, Threnody on 9 October 2005 with 2 comments

As quickly as she came, she has gone. My baby girl’s heart stopped in the early afternoon of Friday, October 7th, probably in an ambulance—we’re not exactly sure when it happened.
We held her, tightly, for as long as we could. I kissed her forehead, her cheeks, her nose. I held her tightly [...]