After My Mom Di3d, My Dad Married Her Twin, and at Their Wedding, My Grandma Revealed the Shocking Truth

After my mother di3d, time stopped making sense.

People talk about grief as if it follows a neat path: shock, denial, anger, acceptance. That is not how it worked for me. For me, it arrived like a car crash you never hear coming. One second, life is ordinary. Next, everything familiar is gone.