How My 5 Year Old Made Me Come To Terms With My Own Mortality
Explaining The Unexplainable To A Child
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5 min readNov 9, 2023
“Mommy, I don’t want to die.” The little voice wafts from his bed and stops me dead in my tracks. I turn back around and see my son sitting bolt upright in bed staring at me in the semi-darkness. I walk back over to him, my mind running furiously. What the heck am I going to say to him?
