Losing someone you love is unbearable. But burying them, mourning them, and then seeing them alive again? That\u2019s something no one prepares you for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two months after my wife Stacey\u2019s death, my son pointed at a woman on the beach and said, \u201cLook, Daddy! Mommy\u2019s back!\u201d At first, I thought he was imagining things. But when I turned, my heart nearly stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The same chestnut hair. The same stance. But she wasn\u2019t supposed to be here. She was supposed to be gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two months earlier, my world had shattered with a single phone call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had been in Seattle, finalizing a major deal for work when my phone rang. It was Stacey\u2019s father. His voice was heavy, his words slow, like he was wading through a nightmare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAbraham\u2026 there\u2019s been an accident. Stacey\u2026 she\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNo,\u201d I had stammered. \u201cThat\u2019s impossible. I just talked to her last night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m sorry, son. It was a drunk driver\u2026 She didn\u2019t make it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t remember the flight home. I don\u2019t remember how I made it through the front door of our house, now just a shell of memories. I had expected to be part of the funeral arrangements, to get some kind of closure. But it was all over by the time I got there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to wait,\u201d Stacey\u2019s mother had said, her eyes avoiding mine. \u201cIt was better this way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Better? I never got to see her. Never got to say goodbye. I should have fought harder, demanded to see her body, but I was too lost in grief to think straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For two months, I went through life in a fog. The house still smelled like her. Her clothes still hung in the closet. Her coffee mug sat by the sink, untouched, as if waiting for her return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our son, Luke, was too young to understand. \u201cWhen\u2019s Mommy coming home?\u201d he\u2019d ask. \u201cCan we call her?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each time, my heart broke a little more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, in a desperate attempt to heal, I took him on a beach vacation. I thought the waves, the sun, and the laughter would help us find a little joy again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until Luke spotted her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMom\u2019s back!\u201d he said, pointing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I turned, expecting to see a stranger. But then she turned, too. And our eyes met.Read More Below<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Losing someone you love is unbearable. But burying them, mourning them, and then seeing them alive again? That\u2019s something no one prepares you for. Two months after my wife Stacey\u2019s death, my son pointed...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystori.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}