One Sentence Made All The Difference
Words mean something, always.
When the chaplains arrived at my campsite to tell me that my husband, Rob, was dead, I told them they needed to give me the news in a single sentence. I literally thought I would die if I heard too many words. I knew that the news was bad, and I knew that speaking things makes them real in a way that imagining or worrying never can. One sentence was all…
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