“Stress is a fickle glue. Our concern over Zach should have cemented us to each other. Instead, we drew our agony around ourselves like a force field. Inadequate protection at best. Distance-maker at worst. It was as if letting ourselves be vulnerable with each other would have made us brittle. We couldn't afford to crumble.”
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Hit Hard: One Family's Journey of Letting Go of What Was--and Learning to Live Well with What Is
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“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”