When things are not OK, friends offer help. Here’s how to do it… | Eva Wiseman

When a true crisis strikes, there's often nothing really telling that you can do - other than be there and be kind

A big, sad thing has happened in my family, the kind of shocking twist one never sees coming, where the only thing to do is retreat into metaphor for comfort. We stepped into a lift and we started falling. A rip opened in the fabric of the kitchen and suddenly we were in a hushed side-world of hospitals and rage, trying desperately to find our way home. We woke one day with a new language, one that hurt our throats to speak.

If you're lucky and loved, when something like this happens, and you eventually tell your friends, they ask if there's anything they can do.

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