
First Draft - Jacqueline Mitchard
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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When You Lose a Child, It's Not the Same as Losing a Child
When you lose a child, you grieve as a child grieves. You don't get better as time passes. You get worse. Time does not take you closer to acceptance, only farther from the one you love. Day by day, belinda slipped away from jill. The more these milestones that passed, the more meaningless the world became. Jill's love for her only was a second son. As the sun disappeared, minute by hour, by day, by week, by month, by year, so did reason.
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