Change Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first... Meghan O'Rourke 18
Death A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved... Meghan O'Rourke 17
Christmas My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because... Meghan O'Rourke 20
