“It never stops hurting, does it?” The other woman’s eyes overflowed as she shook her head. “Never. I miss them so much. Sometimes I can hardly breathe around it. It never goes away. But life goes on. You fill your days with other things, you give your heart to new people and hope they’ll take care of it. They still walk beside us. They still hold us when we fall. And we’ll see them again, eventually.”
