CJD and Me: When a Daughter Loses a Mother

Marielle Songy
8 min readFeb 19, 2020
Mom and me on my 5th birthday, 1987

Get through that first year. Get through the first birthday, the first Christmas, the first winter and the first anniversary of the thing. Once you get through that first year, the rest of the years aren’t so bad. It will all be okay.

At least that’s what I tell myself. Results may vary.

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Marielle Songy

Marielle Songy is a writer and journalist living in New Orleans. More of her work can be found at www.mariellesongy.com