"When someone you love dies, people ask you how you are doing, but they don't really want to know. They seek affirmation that you're okay, that you appreciate their concern, that life goes on and so can they. Secretly they wonder when the statute of limitations on asking expires (its three months, by the way. Written or unwritten, ts about all the time it takes for people to forget the one thing that you never will."
~pg73-74, Twenty Boy summer by Sarah Ockler