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• In fact, I’ve just got to share a few things people told me here at the outset so that you’ll have a taste of what’s ahead. If you doubt that you have any power to bring comfort to someone going through unimaginable loss, surely these will convince you otherwise: When my grandmother passed away from dementia, someone wrote, “I’m so sorry you didn’t...
• The morning after our son passed, as I rose dreading another day, there was our elderly new neighbor, meticulously sweeping our sidewalk. He never looked up; he just swept and went on his way. I will never forget that singular, anonymous act of kindness. GriefShare facilitator, Tampa Bay, Florida My wife and I had tried for about seven years to get...
• After our son drowned, a friend called me up and said, “I am going to make us hair appointments for the same time so I can take you.” When she called ahead, she told our hairdresser what had happened so she would not start asking me about the kids. Rachel Anderson, College Station, Texas
• It matters less what you say than that you say something.
• “It wasn’t so much what people said that hurt,” she said. “What hurt was when people said nothing at all.” All too soon I discovered what she meant; the silence that seemed to scream that my daughter’s life didn’t even merit a mention.