This year marks the seventeenth anniversary of my Mother’s passing, on the 14th of September, 2006. There’s a commonly uttered sentiment that time will eventually lessen the ache, a sentiment I find more poetic than true. As was so poignantly expressed to me at the time of her passing, “Losing your mother is the edge of the sword.”

A line that’s become a part of my grieving lexicon.

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