The New Year often symbolizes a new beginning, but for those of us who are grieving the new year can represent yet another long year without our loved one.
New Years Eve was never really a big deal to me. I would go out with friends but at midnight for as far back as I can remember, regardless of how old I was, I would receive at text from my Dad that said, “Happy New Year honey, we love you.”
2017 was different, my father died January 17, 2016. At midnight the following New Year there was no text from Dad. The text I took for granted for so long was now just a fond memory. The last day of that year meant entering a year that my father would never see. A heartbreaking year of watching my mother learn how to live without her…
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