An odd thing happened to me the night before the mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
My wife and I had watched a recorded episode of Parenthood in which Kristina, a wife and mother, very nearly passes away in a hospital. The recording she had made for her children, in the event of her death, was powerful, especially for the grief and anger Kristina showed when she addressed the newborn baby girl who would not remember her mother. So mortality was on my mind when I put my four-year-old daughter to bed.
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