I Hadn’t Seen My Son Since He Was 6—Until A Stranger Arrived With A Blanket And A Truth That Destroyed My Life

down at night, when I folded Noah’s pajamas just to feel like I was still a mother doing something.

But grief has a way of changing shape.

By year five, Paul stopped saying Noah’s name.

“You’re drowning in it, Stacey,” he told me once, watching me hold a small wooden toy Noah used to sleep with. “You have to let go.”

“I can’t just forget my son.”

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