only way i know how
Sunday, March 4, 2012 at 10:17PM True to form, I'm getting ready to lose my baby sister finally by doing the only thing I really know how to do in a case like this: research the hell out of it. Read whatever I can find, watch anything recommended, basically absorb all available information, writing a footnoted report in my head. But I'm not kidding myself. Like parenting books when you're pregnant with your first kid, none of these resources will really and truly prepare me for what it will feel like, for the irrevocable tectonic shift in the landscape that will ensue when finally, finally, our Carla is no longer with us but with, as I'm sure she plans, the angels.
But still there's some comfort in the preparation, in facing in any way possible that which is coming, ever closer with each passing day.