I ignored most texts and tried to hold strong in front of my kids. I had such dread around telling them. I didnโt know how they would handle it, only how scared I was of death when I was young. So I didnโt tell them.
The body that still remembers everything I trained my mouth not to say. Maybe it would show me all the people I called home because no one ever taught me that home wasnโt supposed to hurt.