I guess my presence has turned into a yearly thing on this website. A little pop in to let you know I’m still here, a silent observer. Still grieving, but it’s ever changing this grief we share through a common experience.

Elise would have been 22 this year and likely would have graduated from college. Here I sit with two degrees on the wall, a testament to my coping mechanism of burying myself in academics. It’s odd thinking time is almost frozen for her while the earth still rotates for...

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