In His World
"Through the journals and the stories, you know who she was."
"But I wish I'd actually known her," Adrian said. "Talked to her, heard her voice, had her hold me."
"I know," I said taking his hand.
We'd been reading through the journals at home too, taking turns reading passages out loud to each other late at night after the kids were asleep.
Grace's writing was beautiful and honest and sometimes heartbreaking, and through it I fell a little bit in love with this woman who'd died trying to save her son.
One night Adrian was reading the last journal, the one Grace had written in the weeks before her death, and he stopped suddenly.