Name: My Daughter Died. How Do I Tell My Son? | NYT Opinion
Uploaded: 2020-04-07T03:12:22.000Z
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And yet, we have never parented a 3-year-old

before. Because Harrison has an older sister who

was sitting on a bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan

from an eighth-story window sill and hit her in the head.

I became a father to both a living child and a spirit.

We compared their sleep habits, their behavior

We loved how they were different from each other

and how they were similar. But only until Harrison was 2.

Now that he's 3, we're in uncharted territory.

It is a bittersweet thing watching him reach milestones

Potty training took on the momentous feeling

than any other child in the neighborhood.

When Harrison was a baby, we would tell him

But he is older now, and I'm more reluctant to say

It's not Greta's life I want to keep secret,

And now, I have to deliver the knowledge of that brick

It will teach him lessons I don't want him to learn.

My superstitions about Greta's accident have died down.

to avoid passing under construction sites with him.

And the first time Harrison smacked his face

on the jungle gym, filling his mouth with blood,

Recently, he pointed to a picture of Greta

That's Greta, buddy, I said, correcting him gently.

That moment reminded me that someday, before long,

my wife and I will have to sit down and explain

to him that he has a sister and why she's not here.

So I hold my breath and wait for the question.

Greta lives inside of Harrison somewhere, murky and

He knows she was a person, and that she's not here,

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My Daughter Died. How Do I Tell My Son? | NYT Opinion

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