"Elise, I'm sorry about Kristy."

She nailed him with her ice-blue eyes. "No, deep inside, you're just so damn happy it wasn't your daughter."

He wasn't going to argue the point; in a way, she was right.

—William Kent Krueger: Red Knife

Holly Margl is the award-winning author of Witnessing Grief; Inviting Trauma and Loss to Our Coaching Conversations, An Enneagram Perspective, coach, coach mentor, and trainer specializing in grief, trauma, and the Enneagram.