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My cousin Rebecca sent me this a couple days ago. I finally read it last night, and I started sobbing reading it. It was a good cry, and I felt so much better this morning. It is sad and beautiful and so well written. I can relate to so much of it, even though as Rebecca pointed out it is not exact (thank God, actually).

I think my favorite part of the post, although it was hard to choose, was this line regarding her husband:

"...your lost baby, your lost daydreams, and he gets so profoundly sad, as sad as you’ve ever seen him, and you know that somehow, even though this is the most painful moment you’ve ever shared with him, that you are really, actually indivisible, because your sadness is a shared sadness that is so deep it could consume you both, but instead, your love begins to pour into the hole, filling it from the bottom up."

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Rebecca's comments on the post in her email to me, about crying and pouring out the grief in order to let the light in reminded me of lyrics I've loved for years... years and years, in fact.

Ring the bells that still can ring
forget your perfect offering...
there's a crack in everything
that's how the light gets in.

~ Leonard Cohen

http://gimmebliss.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-i-healed-after-my-miscarriage.html