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He didn’t want to leave 💔🥺 #fyp #foryoupage #griefjourney #grief #grievingmom #griefandloss #childloss #grieving #foreverzack

“I have struggled, since writing a eulogy for my 14-year-old, to use the past tense,” writes Sarah Wildman (@thehalpernfam), whose daughter @orli_halpern died after three and a half years of fighting cancer. The peculiarity of grieving for an adolescent is that there is still so much of the person’s spirit to absorb. “A vast majority of it is from her phone, which is alive with her photos and videos,” Sarah writes. “But the stories in Orli’s phone are finite. I have all the Orli photos I will ever have. I can only look backward.” After Orli’s death, several people quietly told Sarah that her daughter had helped them in some way. “Her instinct was always to assist, to write to the kid on the other side of the country struggling with chemo-related hair loss,” Sarah writes. “And so, even when I’m crushed with grief, Orli continues to teach me.” Click the link in our bio for more. #childloss #grief #cancer #nytopinion