What do you say when there is absolutely nothing you can say? What do you say when you see someone you haven't seen for awhile in a social setting and while making small talk find that she's suffered an un-imaginable loss?
What do you say to a mother who adult son is senselessly murdered in his apartment building in Chicago? What do you say when she stand in front of you, eyes becoming moist, and tells you that another man in his building got angry, went to his own apartment, got his gun, came back to the building's exercise room and shot her son in the head while he was using the eliptical machine.
"He was dead before he hit the floor, and then the guy shot him in the chest."
Really.....what do you say as your jaw drops, your own eyes tear up and you just stand there.
I don't know her well....just through my volunteer connection at a local museum. But I could see her pain......I could feel her pain, it just seemed to radiate from within. All I could do was say I was so terribly sorry while I gave her a hug.
What on earth do you say in a situation like this.....a situation that happens to "others".
A senseless, cruel, forever loss that will haunt her for the rest of her life.
What do you say?
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