*Snif* It was a sad book...

[rick455]

I think I understand how Nita and the Callahan's might feel. You watch someone you love die, and it doesn't take that long, believe me. My mother and grandmother died of pneumonia. It only took a week. It happened in 1979 so I eventually got over it. I understand the depression afterwards, it seems to go on forever. If I was going to do Nita harm during that. I would think twice, she's at her most dangerous. That goes double for Daraine.

[Trialia]

I think the book was well titled, but Rick, I disagree a bit with what you're saying...

I lost my mother to cancer as a teenager, just like Nita, but unlike Nita, my mama had been fighting lymphoma for 14 years. In the few months after losing a parent to whom you're especially close, one may feel angry and ready to fight, but it's also a more vulnerable time than most people would like to admit.