" And now the boys, with both of them leaving, had turned our lives upside down; their presence had become the wind in our sails; their departure blowing away our moorings as effortlessly as a wind shakes leaves from a tree, scattering everything we thought we knew, leaving an emptiness unlike any I'd ever known, waiting to be filled.
With what? I wondered. I didn't know.
I didn't know what next, what there could possibly be that would invest our lives with as much meaning. "

― Kim Brown Seely