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  1. The New York Times CompanyJayson Greene5/4/197 min
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    • Jim4 years ago

      Good Lord, how heartbreaking. Writing about this must be a sort of therapy for J. Greene.

    • Supriyas4 years ago

      This made me weep as though Greta and Harrison were my own.

    • Pegeen
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      4 years ago

      This is achingly, beautifully written. I can’t even begin to comprehend the courage it has taken this couple to bring another child into their world. I’m confident this author will do a superlative job making meaning from such an incomprehensible loss.

    • bill
      Top reader of all time
      4 years ago

      Oh my god. If something like this happened to me I would certainly move out of the city. How on Earth does one recover from a trauma like this?! I guess by writing. And I guess that the process of recovery never really ends.

      It is not her life I want to keep secret, but the circumstances of her death. We wish to protect our children. I was unable to protect Greta. Now, having seen the brick destroy my first child, I must deliver the knowledge of the brick to my second. We will have to choose the moment in Harrison's life to introduce this crack into his foundation, and I will have no way of controlling where it goes inside him afterward.

      Good God that's heavy stuff. I'm sure that crack will end up letting in a lot more light.