Two Weeks After Our Baby Died, My 8-Year-Old Whispered, “Mom, She Isn’t Gone—I Saw What Daddy Did at the Hospital”
Still Melanie’s history inside.
Also books.
Chair.
Lucy sometimes read there.
Toby did homework at the desk.
Life entered without evicting grief.
That became my favorite metaphor, though Dr.
Ward would probably accuse me of turning the house into therapy.