A Parent’s Grief Is Permanent

Contemplating another year of missing my daughter

Jacqueline Dooley
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readMar 20, 2019

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Photo: Suki Photography by Sandra Grimm/Getty Images

During the first year after my daughter died, there was a split second each morning when my eyes hadn’t quite adjusted to the shift of light and my brain was still assembling coherent thoughts. During those seconds, the world existed entirely in my mind. In that instant of suspended reality, before unconsciousness faded to…

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Jacqueline Dooley
Human Parts

Essayist, content writer, bereaved parent. Bylines: Human Parts, GEN, Marker, OneZero, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Pulse, HuffPost, Longreads, Modern Loss