“Grief is just love with no place to go.”

-Jamie Anderson

This week, a reader (who is also a friend), wrote, “This holiday I am dreading missing mom a lot.”

My friend’s simple confession brought me back sharply to how I started walking this healing path to begin with. Inevitably, the spotlight comes to rest on an 11 1/2-year-old kid whose father died in the prime of his life, out of the blue, one Monday in June.

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