This Perfectly Imperfect Life

Just ten days after the year anniversary of my brother-in-law W's passing, and just 13 days before the year anniversary of my brother-in-law V's passing, my mother passed away at home of a stroke last weekend. Despite our painfully complicated lifelong relationship, I am devastated. I love her. I always have. Often it is said about someone who's passed is that they're in a better place, and often you can see the doubt in loved ones faces. It's been awful watching my mother deteriorate, especially in these last four years; she was tired, she was ready, and so in her case, it's true. She's is in a better place; she's finally no longer suffering, and I pray she is finally at peace in the place where she wanted to be for so many years now. But while I knew in my heart this was coming, and had started to prepare, it was so completely unexpected when it happened, and to find her already gone like that... They say no one should have to outlive their own chil