An Open Letter to 2015
Dear 2015, You started out so nice. I thought you would be a continuation of the great year that was 2014. And January and February started out pretty uneventful. Then March rolled in. One of my classmates from Burke and Carolina suddenly passed away. And then my 90-year-old aunt died. But I was gratefully that she lived to 90. Then you stayed quiet.... until the night of June 17 . I lost two friends that night. And so many of my friends lost relatives and friends. It was so heartbreaking to go to funeral after funeral, wake after wake. But Charleston, as always, came together. And I was still reeling from that when I got that call from my stepfather on September 18 that would change my life forever. I did not know that you would be the year that would take my mother from me. There are days that I think that it's just a dream and that she will be calling me on the phone or walk in my house. And it seemed like after that, ever...