It has often been said here that our grief can soften with time.
I'm finding this to sort of be true, but not in a way that I expected.

In the first year I was trying to cope with the trauma and shock of finding my son, along with the tremendous feelings of guilt and numerous questions as to how and why this happened. I would be struck by grief ambushes, mostly triggered from being at work, where I found him, and all the "firsts" (Birthdays, Christmas, New Year, etc.) without him. During...

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