Grief is a silent architect that rebuilds your world into something unrecognizable, a landscape where every shadow holds a memory and every silence feels like an accusation. For two years, my life was measured in the heavy, rhythmic steps I took toward a specific plot in the local cemetery. Thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six—the exact count it took to reach the cold marble that bore the names of my daughters, Ava and Mia. I had become a woman who spoke to headstones because the living world felt too abrasive to touch. I had accepted the role of the grieving mother who had...
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