Finding Grace

by Loretta Rothschild

Nobody on earth has the constitution to metabolize the sudden and terrific loss of unconditional love.

It was only when I thought I’d come to terms with all of it—that some women could just gaze at the sky to get pregnant (Lauren with twins, no less), while others (like me) had to have their ovaries removed—a bone-deep, biological sadness would usurp my whole being.

Those first few hours away were always the most heavenly,

This is so true of every trip. the first few hours are the best

As if he didn’t already know, not only her name but her dislike of cold weather and the fact that she’d been adopted and used to live in Italy.

Guessing it here and now that as Grace was adopted she is Honor's biological relative somehow - sister even? Honor's mom seems like a woman who would put one kid up for adoption and keep the other one aka horrible.

You can’t boycott grief, unless you want to boycott happiness with it. You don’t get the meat without the bones.”

But love isn’t finite. One doesn’t take from the other. It’s not a number or an equation. It’s an open field, and here he was, charging through