But now I know I can hold her peacefully within my heart and still have room left over. If this is the result of my own sorrow—an enlarged capacity; the ability to contain heartbreak not my own—if this was the deal, then it’s acceptable to me. Duchess Goldblatt wasn’t the one who taught me that grief would expand the boundaries of my heart, but she was the one who showed me how to share it with other people. This is not the life I wanted—I have mourned with every piece of my old broken heart for the life I always wanted, the happy family I couldn’t make out of thin air and good intentions for
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