Five years ago Josh and I got married. Tonight we watched our wedding video, mostly to get Jonah to stop crying after his nap (he is notoriously cranky after naps), and this ton of bricks hit me: Four of our wedding guests are no longer with us - three died of cancer, one was a suicide - and none were "old enough" to die. One baby boy in utero at our wedding had a heart defect, and died a month later, aged three days old. All I ask for - all I pray for - is fewer of these head-on collisions between life and death, joy and sorrow, yin and yang. Let's keep it simple. OK, God?
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This breaks my heart a bit. Last month marked the 10th anniversary of the death of a boy I loved in college, and it's both strange and sad and comforting to realize that we do move on from these losses.
Yes, we move on, but it's so hard to confront them all in video form... especially in the context of something joyous!
I'm sorry for your loss, Emma.
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