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A Moment in Grief
1 min readApr 19, 2022
A year after the death of my grandad.
This moment. It is 5 hours and 18 mins until it has been exactly one year since my grandad died. I hope my grandad knows how loved he is, how heartbroken we are, how much we miss him, and how much we want him to be here with us. I hope he knows that I am keeping my promise to him, that I am looking after granny.
What do I choose to do in this moment? I choose to write and cry, mourn and remember. And in a second I will go back to reading. I still, a year later allow myself moments to be overcome with sadness. It is all-encompassing. But in a moment I will return to the escape that reading offers me.
