Right after the funeral of our 15-year-old daughter, my husband insisted that I get rid of her belongings, but while cleaning her room I found a strange note:
“Mom, look under the bed and you’ll understand everything.”
Right after the funeral of our only daughter, who had just turned 15, life seemed to come to a halt.
I remember standing by the grave, barely able to keep on my feet.
People around me were saying something, offering condolences, but I could hardly hear anything. There was only her white coffin.
After the funeral my husband kept saying:
— We need to throw away all her things. They’re just memories. They’ll torture us as long as we keep them at home.
I couldn’t understand how he could say that. These weren’t just things — they were her scent, her touch, her dresses, her toys. I resisted as long as I could, but after a month I gave in. I decided to clean her room, where I hadn’t stepped in almost a month.
