Broken Country

by Clare Leslie Hall

You have to fool yourself into thinking you already are the thing you want to become.

You can never change back once you’ve had a child, even if that child no longer exists.

Any couple who has lost a child will tell you the same. You see it in the other, of course you do, but it’s like you’re on a seesaw of grief, and all you want is to avoid tipping the other one down.