Daria Burke

I've thought about this in two different ways. It's sort of the sliding doors moments that we all have in our lives. And on the one hand, I've wondered if she had some sense that she should just go to church without us. This was before cell phone, so she wouldn't have been calling to let us know that she wasn't coming.

I've thought about this in two different ways. It's sort of the sliding doors moments that we all have in our lives. And on the one hand, I've wondered if she had some sense that she should just go to church without us. This was before cell phone, so she wouldn't have been calling to let us know that she wasn't coming.

I've thought about this in two different ways. It's sort of the sliding doors moments that we all have in our lives. And on the one hand, I've wondered if she had some sense that she should just go to church without us. This was before cell phone, so she wouldn't have been calling to let us know that she wasn't coming.

It's unlike her, so that scenario feels a little strange, but it's definitely crossed my mind. The other thought that I've had is that perhaps as we do when we're driving somewhere we've driven hundreds of times, we're sort of on an autopilot and you're just going.

It's unlike her, so that scenario feels a little strange, but it's definitely crossed my mind. The other thought that I've had is that perhaps as we do when we're driving somewhere we've driven hundreds of times, we're sort of on an autopilot and you're just going.

It's unlike her, so that scenario feels a little strange, but it's definitely crossed my mind. The other thought that I've had is that perhaps as we do when we're driving somewhere we've driven hundreds of times, we're sort of on an autopilot and you're just going.

And that maybe that she had sort of turned off or tuned out in just this moment that in that route that she had taken so many times that she forgot that she was coming to get us.

And that maybe that she had sort of turned off or tuned out in just this moment that in that route that she had taken so many times that she forgot that she was coming to get us.

And that maybe that she had sort of turned off or tuned out in just this moment that in that route that she had taken so many times that she forgot that she was coming to get us.

I think she represented... A before time when things were good, even if I couldn't fully remember all of that, she represented a safety and a stability and a level of care and attention and intention that was markedly absent after she passed away. And I think it was easy to tell myself a story that that was the shift that

I think she represented... A before time when things were good, even if I couldn't fully remember all of that, she represented a safety and a stability and a level of care and attention and intention that was markedly absent after she passed away. And I think it was easy to tell myself a story that that was the shift that

I think she represented... A before time when things were good, even if I couldn't fully remember all of that, she represented a safety and a stability and a level of care and attention and intention that was markedly absent after she passed away. And I think it was easy to tell myself a story that that was the shift that

That her death was the end of these before times that were secure and safe and loving and nurturing, very much driven by her presence.

That her death was the end of these before times that were secure and safe and loving and nurturing, very much driven by her presence.

That her death was the end of these before times that were secure and safe and loving and nurturing, very much driven by her presence.

Yes. Yes. I have memories that have come back to me. I write about one of them in the book that suggests that perhaps she was using before my grandmother died. And I imagine that grandma was probably a bit of a buffer.

Yes. Yes. I have memories that have come back to me. I write about one of them in the book that suggests that perhaps she was using before my grandmother died. And I imagine that grandma was probably a bit of a buffer.

Yes. Yes. I have memories that have come back to me. I write about one of them in the book that suggests that perhaps she was using before my grandmother died. And I imagine that grandma was probably a bit of a buffer.

For us as kids, in some way, her presence was so formidable and consistent that I think it would have been quite difficult to actually have the same kind of proximity to my mother's addiction that I had after my grandma died. And so it's when I was around age seven or eight that

For us as kids, in some way, her presence was so formidable and consistent that I think it would have been quite difficult to actually have the same kind of proximity to my mother's addiction that I had after my grandma died. And so it's when I was around age seven or eight that