The crib was still there, the little socks folded carefully, the walls painted in soft colors that now seemed too bright for her mood.
For days she avoided going inside. She would walk past the closed door, touching the wood as if she could still hear a nonexistent breath behind it.
Her family tried to help her, but they didn’t know how. Some talked too much, others avoided the subject, and some simply looked at her with pity.
She began to realize something painful: the world expected her to move on quickly, as if pain didn’t deserve time.
But the pain didn’t obey clocks. It came in waves, sometimes gentle, sometimes devastating, especially when she saw other women with baby strollers.
One day she decided to go into the room. She sat on the floor, leaning against the crib, and for the first time she cried without effort.
