In movies, you just see somebody close their eyes, and you go on to the next scene.
It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.
I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).
My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.
I always wonder, aside from even my name, what if my parents never split up? What if my mother never died? It swirls in my head all the time.
I didn't know what my fate was as far as being alive.