The Killer Across the Table

by John E. Douglas

The mourning process will go through stages and eventually the pain will become less unbearably acute, but it will never go away, any more than the hole in one’s personal universe left by the loss of the victim and the erasure of a lifetime of promise will ever be filled in.

True of all grief and losses of loved ones. That hole, yes, but the lifetime cut off is what never fades but hits hard every holiday or milestone from the moment of loss to the end.