Lived Through This

September Is About Counting Memories and Missing My Daughter

I’m obsessed with all the numbers that mark the time that Ana was alive.

Jacqueline Dooley
Human Parts
Published in
4 min readSep 2, 2021
Ana, age 14 — Photo by Chloe Mosbacher (Ana’s cousin)

There are 3,289 members in a Facebook group that exists for parents who have lost children to cancer.

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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