I’ve made a discovery, and it’s that grief isn’t like sadness at all. Sadness is only something that’s part of you. Grief becomes you, it wraps you up and changes you and makes everything–every little thing–different than it was before. I remember the me before we got the telegram saying he was gone, but it’s like I’m remembering someone else. It feels like an earthquake has gone through me…

I’ve made a discovery, and it’s that grief isn’t like sadness at all. Sadness is only something that’s part of you. Grief becomes you, it wraps you up and changes you and makes everything–every little thing–different than it was before. I remember the me before we got the telegram saying he was gone, but it’s like I’m remembering someone else. It feels like an earthquake has gone through me…

– Jodi Lynn Anderson –

Midnight at the Electric

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