Chapter One
From the opening pages
Unlike the other hard days in this collection, this one rarely arrives on a schedule. There’s no date on the calendar, no cultural build-up, no way to book the day off work and brace for it. It can happen in a supermarket aisle on an entirely ordinary Tuesday, with no warning at all.
That’s why this short book is built to be read two ways. Once in advance, quietly, so the ground under your feet is already a little firmer if the moment comes. And again in the hours right after, when you need steadying more than a long, considered read.
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