When my 22-month-old son died, I had to find a way to make the unimaginable my new — and inescapable — reality.
When my 22-month-old son died, I had to find a way to make the unimaginable my new — and inescapable — reality.
By
Matthew Schnipper,
former editor at Pitchfork and the Fader.
He writes the newsletter 'Deep Voices' and is at work on a memoir, 'Rise Above.'
After the tragedy, one question haunted me: how do you miss an unborn child?
Reading with him, I am reminded of the world of words his mother and I shared. I no longer feel so overwhelmed
"I remember thinking, over and over, 'This can’t be real.' But it was. And in that moment, the Before part of my life ended."
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