Allie Mayo breaks a twenty-year self-imposed silence to confront another woman's grief. She recounts the traumatic loss of her husband at sea and explains how her refusal to speak was an attempt to freeze her pain, ultimately warning that isolation is not the way to survive loss.
ALLIE MAYO: If I could say that, I can say more. That boy in there—his face—uncovered something. For twenty years, I did what you are doing. And I can tell you—it's not the way. We had been married—two years. Married—two years. He had a chance to go north on a whaler. Times hard. He had to go. A yea
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