Two years after my wife and six-year-old son died in a car accident, I was still technically alive\u2014but that\u2019s about all I could say for myself.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m Michael Ross. I\u2019m 40. And my life ended in a hospital hallway when a doctor looked at me with tired eyes and said, \u201cI\u2019m so sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lauren and our son Caleb were gone. Hit by a drunk driver.
\n\u201cThey went quickly,\u201d someone told me, as if that softened anything.<\/p>\n
After the funeral, the house felt wrong. Not quiet\u2014wrong.<\/p>\n
Lauren\u2019s favorite mug sat by the coffee maker like it was waiting. Caleb\u2019s sneakers were still kicked off by the door. His drawings stayed on the fridge because I couldn\u2019t bring myself to move them. I stopped sleeping in our bedroom and camped out on the couch with the TV glowing all night, just for the noise.<\/p>\n
I went to work. I came home. I ate takeout from the same three places. I stared at walls.<\/p>\n
People told me I was strong.<\/p>\n
I wasn\u2019t. I was just still breathing.<\/p>\n
About a year later, I was on that same couch at two in the morning, scrolling through Facebook because sleep still wouldn\u2019t come. The usual blur went by\u2014politics, pets, vacation photos I didn\u2019t want to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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