THIS IS US

We Are a Family, but We Grieve Alone

My daughter’s absence was like a wound, raw and weeping. Everything we did together reminded us of who we had lost.

Jacqueline Dooley
Published in
7 min readAug 3, 2021

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Painting by Emily Dooley

Once I got married and became a mother, I understood that my whole self wasn’t just about me anymore. My life revolved around the other members of my familial…

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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