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Weekly Contest #89
I spent forty days and forty nights taking shifts with her family to sit in a candle’s glow after she died. We prayed, we played cards, we laughed, we danced and celebrated the amazing life she lived. But as the days went on, and the grief set in, we wailed, we held each other close and shared the pain of losing someone so young. It’s believed that it takes the spirit of a loved one forty days to pass on to the afterlife, but it’s been a year now, and I still see her in everything that I do. I developed every picture we ever took of eac...
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