Journalists wrestle – or better said, should – with how much of themselves to include in their stories. It’s understood that from the inception of those stories that journalists choose to tell, they are present, if not necessarily seen; after all, it was their curiosity, their questions, that set the story in motion.
“I’ve entered the last stage of grief: the acceptance that home won’t ever feel like home again. “
This is lifelong work.
The longing for a destroyed home never ends.