Reader\'s Digest Canada - 10.2019

alternative. Someone wise once said
that you don’t know what you’re capa-
ble of until it’s the only thing left to do,
and it’s so true. I’ve lost count of the
number of people who’ve said they
don’t know how they would survive in
my shoes, or that they can’t imagine
how they’d keep going, or just how
strong I must be. But to them, all I say
is that I’m not doing anything different
from what they would probably do.
I’ve kept living, and that’s the key—
just as it has been for countless par-
ents before us who have also faced
devastation and gotten up to fight
another day.
As parents and survivors, all we can
do is just keep going, trying to find any
bit of joy in each day. We mine the

memories for ones that make us smile

more than they make us melancholy,

and find it gets a little easier with each

passing year. We try to live in ways that

honour our children or we feel would

make them proud of us. For us, it’s tell-

ing the story of Lauren’s death and the

anguish of not knowing if it could have

been prevented. It’s living out loud

after losing our daughter, seeking and

finding happiness wherever we can

and not denying ourselves the plea-

sures that may lie within each new day.

After all that we have endured, Rob

and I are intent on proving that there

is, indeed, life after death.

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Vacation Truths

I wear a fun sock when I travel to give the security staff a well-deserved chuckle.

CHELSEA PERETTI, ACTOR

Vacation resort rule number one: apparently, if you place a towel on

a chair, you own said chair forever.

@SCULLYMIKE

Before you express relief at not being seated next to a crying baby for the long

flight, let me introduce myself.

@BRIANWASH

If Autocorrect was a person I would never go on a vacation with it.

PAULA PELL, COMEDY WRITER

It’s not a family vacation until someone threatens to throw a prized

possession from a moving vehicle.

@AMYDILLON

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