Not Here to Meet You by Katie Huey

My dad died in 2016, six years before we even dreamed of having a child. His absence, at times, is everywhere. When I was nine months pregnant, I cried, realizing my unborn baby will live the experience of loss from the moment she enters the world. I fear the day when she first says, “My grandpa died before I was born.”

The loss of a parent has been a profound experience. To realize she lost him too breaks my heart.