I told my daughter that she should take a different job, and I wish she’d listened to me.
My in-laws been regularly gifting things like holy water and children’s Bibles that I’ve carefully set asideI am becoming a real concern to my family, but I think maybe I am in the right. Tragedy gets to me. When the Syrian refugee crisis was everywhere in the news, I did the things one should do, I think. I agitated, I donated, and I volunteered to house refugees.
She and her family—including two children under 8—were killed, I learned, in a missile strike that hit their home after days of no water and food, and, I imagine, terrible, awful, helpless fear.Now I’m not really able to function well. Donating money—more and more money—doesn’t help. I have been checking on my kids multiple times a night, not sleeping, crying in the bathroom, and I have thrown up more meals than makes sense. My husband is worried about me.
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