Yes, We Are Heartbroken. Yes, We Have Hope.

Marla Rose
5 min readAug 3, 2023

“Let your heart break so your spirit doesn’t.” Andrea Gibson

I was in the car on the way to Duluth to vacation with my family when I saw the news about Sinéad O’Connor. A dark pall fell over all of us, as I know it did for millions of people, and it was impossible for me to shake the grief for days so I just let the feelings swirl and settle and swirl again like snowglobe particles. “How…

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