My New Neighbor Looked Exactly Like My Child

me I needed rest.

A doctor came in. Someone gave me something.

When I woke up, it felt like everything inside me had been emptied out.

I asked again.

“Where is he?”

She turned a page in her magazine and said,
“You need to move forward.”

I asked if there would be a funeral.

“There’s nothing for you to do here,” she replied.

That night, when she stepped out, continue reading …