This is a beautiful and touching personal essay about reconciliation between parent and child, the experience of losing a parent and the ways in which our relationship to our parents continues to change and evolve even once they are no longer with us. You offer permission to all the emotions that arise, and shows a potential path forward to understanding and forgiveness. This is a story that will mean a lot to many who are going through or who have already gone through something similar, it will help prepare others and hopefully give them an opportunity to say things they’ve needed to say before it’s too late. As much as it is sad and about grief, it is also focused on closure and the lightness of moving on. Thank you Grace!