Kintsugi Heart
Piecing together my life after loss
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5 min readMay 13, 2024
I thought I knew what loss felt like. After all, I’d cried enough about my dead goldfish and runaway cats growing up. But nothing, and I mean nothing, could’ve prepared me for the loss of my mother.
She was my BFF, my rock, my 2am buddy on the other end of the line who would pick up regardless of the hour and ask: ‘What’s wrong baby girl?’ before I even…