Afterward, my mother became a ghost. She fed and clothed me, but emotionally, she disappeared with him.
I promised myself my child would never become invisible because of my grief.
Don’t ‘Mom’ me.
Then I started losing Ethan.
And apparently, grief had been waiting patiently to see whether I was a liar.
One evening, my son said, “I want to donate whatever they can use.”
“Stop.”
“Mom..”
My child would never become invisible.
“You’re nineteen.”