This is one of the most deeply human and devastatingly beautiful posts I’ve read. The moment Bill emerges in his collar, and the father hits with such emotional precision. What stays with me most is how care softened hearts and rewrote what love could look like, even in the face of loss. 🕊️💔
Thank you for these kind words Amy . . . I'm working on a memoir about those times and the people who lived through them . . . and those who didn't . . .
This is a devastatingly beautiful recounting, Ed. Thank you for making visible Paul and others whose lives and deaths were (and still are) so stigmatized and hidden from plain sight. 💔❤️🩹🧡💛💚💙💜
Oh Rhiannon! It's hard for me to cry . . . but when I see/hear others being able to do it, I feel like they're crying a little for me as well . . . thank you!
This is one of the most deeply human and devastatingly beautiful posts I’ve read. The moment Bill emerges in his collar, and the father hits with such emotional precision. What stays with me most is how care softened hearts and rewrote what love could look like, even in the face of loss. 🕊️💔
Thank you so much Gino. I write these stories to remember those who lived and died during those difficult years. What is remembered lives!
This was a really lovely, bittersweet story. These stories deserve to be told, we should be learning about people like Paul. Thank you Ed.
Thank you for these kind words Amy . . . I'm working on a memoir about those times and the people who lived through them . . . and those who didn't . . .
This is a devastatingly beautiful recounting, Ed. Thank you for making visible Paul and others whose lives and deaths were (and still are) so stigmatized and hidden from plain sight. 💔❤️🩹🧡💛💚💙💜
Thanks Keith . . . it was a powerful experience to live through . . . and I'm glad I'm alive to be able to write about those who didn't . . .
Dear Ed,
Thank you for much for your decades of service, compassion and caring. You are a gem!
Please continue writing your memoir as it makes real and poignant so many experiences.
Thank you Nina . . . I'm working on it and hope to have it done sooner than later . . .
I want to adopt you, too, Ed! <3
Oh Lark! I'd love to come and live with you and Charlie!
Thank you, Ed!
Thank you, Ed, for this touching story.
I didn't know I was going to start my Wednesday work morning off with a cry, but here we are - a bit of a cleansing of the system!
Oh Rhiannon! It's hard for me to cry . . . but when I see/hear others being able to do it, I feel like they're crying a little for me as well . . . thank you!