Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole Condition:Well Read a vicious little bugger

a vicious little bugger

When Fleetwood finds a letter she isn¹t supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth

until one of them breaks the rules and sends a message that will change everything…Because what if ‘what could have been’ is yet to come

Upper-middle-class children become upper-middle-class adults

Whether the story has a happy or an unhappy ending depends entirely upon which type gets top billing

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole Condition:Well Read a vicious little buggerBittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy when beholding beauty. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death bitter and sweet are forever paired. A song in a minor key, an elegiac poem, or even a touching television commercial all can bring us to this sublime, even holy, state of mind and, ultimately, to greater kinship with our fellow humans. But