When I was a kid in junior high school a good friend's mom died suddenly.
I have a clear memory of that time but it isn't full of details because there weren't any.
By that I mean someone, probably my mom, told me of the death but after that - nothing. We didn't go to funerals. I didn't go to my first one until I was 19 years old.
So at whatever age I was when my friend's mother died I was sailing in unchartered waters.
Was I supposed to call her and tell her I was sorry?
Maybe send a card? Flowers?
I'm sure I didn't do any of those things. Did my friend wonder why no one made a gesture or was she as clueless as the rest of us kids.
So, I'm guessing we just didn't talk about it. Wonder how she felt that first day back at school? I never asked her.
Even all these years later the subject just never came up.
I hope kids are better prepared for this kind of thing than I was back "in the olden days."
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