Mollie Tibbetts family weighs in.....powerful!

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70. Sadly, in my lifetime, I have had close, personal relationships

with three sets of parents who have lost their children suddenly and tragically. I have heard the primal screams of a mother who is told that her child is gone. I have been in a prayer circle while a father, just after his son’s death, asked us to hold hands and pray for his young son’s swift passage. I have seen massive grief and hysteria, and a powerful strength that can only come from the need of parents to do what they can to make final arrangements as perfect as they had hoped to make a wedding. I have seen the aftermath, the years of aching and longing, and I have asked myself if I, myself, could endure. Honestly, I don’t think I could.
To have to deal with a national crisis at the same time is too much to ask of Mollie’s parents. The fact that she responded is, in itself, amazing. That she so eloquently answered simply brings me to sobbing tears. I’ve seen the pain, but I can only empathize. I know that it is a pain the breaks the strongest of us. Mollie’s mom is beyond the end of her rope. She is gasping for air and she needs to be allowed to come to shore, to lie sobbing in grief and then try to somehow rebuild her life. Instead, she is forced to continue with her Mama Bear instincts and protect her child. I am both horrified and in awe at the same time. I wish strength to endure and eventual peace to Millie’s family.