Marilyn Rollins

My name is Marilyn Rollins. I live in Hebron, Indiana, a small town about 50 miles SE of Chicago. I was ask to become part of this anthology series on grief, as the result of my son and granddaughter's deaths in an automobile accident in 2006. What better experts on grief could there be than those who have walked that road, only to emerge on the other side realizing that life does go on, has, in fact, gone on? I have looked out at this world many times over the last nine years and wondered how it does go on. My son and granddaughter are dead, how could this world keep turning? But it does, so we who have suffered the unimaginable grief of losing a child, keep moving forward, whether we want to or not. I only wish that I had had this book in those very early days of my grief. I would have realized that I was not alone and I was not crazy and my thoughts and feelings were very normal. I would have clung to it, for it gives hope that we can emerge from the darkness and live again.