2:17 p.m.
Such an ordinary time.
My only child was thirty-two.
People were buying groceries. Children were getting out of school. Someone, somewhere, was probably complaining about traffic.
At 2:17, a doctor sat beside me and said, « I’m sorry. We couldn’t save Helen. »
My only child was thirty-two.
I was fifty-five.
And suddenly, I had no idea who I was supposed to be anymore.