Michelle Falkoff

People are going to say a lot of things. And some of it will be helpful, and some of it will be annoying, and lots of it will get on your nerves. But they're saying it because they found it helpful when they lost someone. They mean well.

I would never understand how hurt and confused and hopeless he must have felt, to decide it wasn't worth trying, and I wasn't mad at him anymore for doing it...

But I couldn__ block out the sound of his voice. __ayden wasn__ the son I expected to have,_ he said. ____ imagined playing catch in the yard, watching football on the weekends, going fishing. The things I__ done with my dad; the things I do with Ryan. It was the only kind of relationship I knew how to have with a son._ His voice cracked. __ut my second son didn__ enjoy any of those things. He loved music and video games and computers. I didn__ know how to talk to him. And now I__l spend the rest of my life wishing I__ learned how._ He lowered his head, as if he were trying to hide the fact that he was crying.