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8 min readDec 18, 2019
Have you ever heard the sound that comes from the belly of a mother who has just learned her child has died? I’ve been writing in some form or another since I was a small child so my vocabulary is broad. I do not, however, and likely never will know of a word that is effectual enough to describe that sound. I heard it on December 9, 2017, around 1:36 P.M. from a source that I never expected to hear it from — my sister.