The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of lossyou have gone and lost something else. But the body moves toward health. The mind, too, in steps. One step at a time. Ask a mother who has just lost a child, How many children do you have? "Four," she will say, "three," and years later, "Three," she will say, "four.
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