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The Hardest 30 Days: Countdown to The 5-Year Anniversary of My Daughter’s Death

I’m live blogging my most difficult days of the year

Jacqueline Dooley
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11 min readFeb 24, 2022

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A selfie taken by Ana in 2016 (age 15)

Day 30: These bleak February days with their unsettled weather patterns make me so impatient for spring. I watch the feeders from my office window, counting the cardinals in the naked…

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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