Never in my life have I attended a funeral. Never in my life have I hurt so greatly for someone I barely knew.
If someone I know dies, we usually share our condolences, and then that’s it. The only people who I have lost dear to me were my siblings, and they didn’t even have a funeral, because their bodies were ‘never found’.
We had three memorials. One for Aliah, One for Alex and then one for both of them. But to have their bodies in front of me—to see them one last time and say goodbye? I never had that.
And so, doing it with Lorenzo was harder than I imagined. Every time my eyes landed on his body, I remember seeing Dageian shoving his heart from his chest. I just keep remembering that underneath the suit he was wearing, his heart wasn’t there. His best aspect of himself—torn from hi
