Why couldn’t my daughter ever come to me for Pesach?

Nechami: It’s true we’re not in crisis, but that does mean we can never host our children?

Tzivia: Don’t you realize that without the children we won’t have a semblance of a normal Yom Tov?

Tzivia

It’s been five years and I’m still trying to adjust to this new version of reality.

Okay, I guess to some extent, I have adjusted. I haven’t had a choice. But there are times of year that feel like they’ll always throw me for a loop, all the way back to the beginning, to that whirl of memories and stabbing pain and that sick, sick feeling of things will never be the same.

Of what have you done, and what will I do, and our family, what will be with our family?

It was just after Purim when he left.