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Maybe, I thought, what was scary about knowing when you were going to die was knowing the exact moment you would stop mattering.
It was weird how knowing that you’d have to say goodbye eventually could make you miss a place or thing or person, even before they were gone.
The things you couldn’t hold on to sometimes helped to understand the things you could.
“Some people prefer to do what is easy, Grit, and hate is easy. Anger is easy.”
can love myself and love my family and be a human and that’s enough.
“I can’t promise you nothing bad will ever happen again. I wish I could, but I can’t,” Dad says. “But my job and your job isn’t to see life coming. It’s to be the best you can be, to love people, to live even if it scares you. That’s the thing I want most for you—not that you stop being afraid, but that you keep living, even when you’re afraid.”
