I honor your journey as you experience these posts, knowing how much courage it takes to pause, reflect, and acknowledge the ways loss has touched your life.

Closure, if ever a real thing, is elusive in a situation that is capable of being understood in two or more possible senses or ways, or when a situation is difficult to discern or categorize.

Yes, you were hurt there. Yes, that was scary and made you feel different from all the other girls. But yes, you were then, and you are now, so loveable and worthy of letting go of this pain. I acknowledge this for you.

Honor whatever it is you have lost by allowing for the bittersweet, and your brain will create new meaning for those anniversaries.