One word can describe family: Everything. From hurts and joys to aches and laughter. Death may be the strangest occurrence in life. We know it's gonna happen- there's no avoiding it, yet when we come to that crossroad we have a tumultuous sensation of pain, grief, doubt, and some instances happiness. To reason through and intake all that is it could take days, weeks, months, even years to requite our emotions to the reckoning of death.

When a beloved goes so does our heart, blood, tears just as their's, but for different reasons.

I recall your writing about the death of your mother and the line hoping that Heaven be treating her well. I'm sure that this writing was sent to her as a gift for the well-being of her child, you.

I'm glad you can see the positive side of your mother and yout relationship. I hope you continue to heal. Some things will never be the same again, but we learn to deal with it. I wish you didn't have to learn so young but it can be done.