Finding Fairness
She stared out the passenger window of my car with a steady stream of tears trailing down her cheeks. I gripped the steering wheel to steady myself wishing for any way to make this bearable for her. It was two days before Thanksgiving and I was driving Lori, my paralegal of 15 years, to the hospital where her daughter-in-law was losing her first baby at 24 weeks of pregnancy. Lori was trying to find strength for her family and as she grappled with the loss of her first granddaughter. “It isn’t fair,” she whispered into the world as I realized