what it's like to lose a parent at a young age...
MAGNIFICENTLY MCKINNLEY: Blog #13 Before I begin this blog, I just want to state that this was one of the hardest pieces of work that I have ever written. I have been tossing and turning and writing and deleting and contemplating each day whether or not I should, or more or less if I even could, write a work such as this. I am the type of person that falls short of being able to express feelings and emotions in a way in which I wish I could. For those of you close to me, you know one of the terms I use to describe how I express emotion is "push it down deep and keep moving". This has been the way I have always faced emotion in my life, by pushing that feeling deep down into my body, feeling it for only a very few moments, and then picking myself back up and moving on with life. Now you are probably thinking to yourself, "well, that doesn't seem very healthy..." and you're right, it doesn't. But that is how I have taught myself to deal with