My parents refused to care for my younger kids while I tended to my oldest with leukemia; I called my ex-husband, but he said: “You’re just a poor writer, deal with it”

sentence.

Not for publication.

Not for approval.

Just one thing that is true.

Even if it is about toast.

It helped save my life.

A few weeks later, Angela told me about a bereavement group that met Thursday evenings in the back room of the public library under terrible fluorescent lights with surprisingly good coffee.

I almost didn’t go.

I went because she offered to stay with the boys.

And a person who turns down a hospital monitor for you has earned a yes.

There were eight people, a facilitator,