Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Poetic Obituaries: When I was trying to explain

to my grandson about his mother's death, I showed him a picture of Rachel on my knee and told him that just as he was her child, so she had been my child.

"Jacob," I said, "I'm so sorry that you lost your mother."

Avoiding eye contact and splitting his attention between a toy in his lap and a video, Jacob replied: "I'm sorry that your daughter died."

Jacob is five

from C. E. Chaffin's Blog: Rachel Elizabeth Chaffin: 11/11/1977 - 7/29/2007

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