An honest, gut-level book about loss that unwraps issues, empties broken hearts, and shatters communication barriers while offering friendship and hope to the reader.

This is a togetherness experience—someone coming alongside to share and comfort—before moving on. Mildred shares her own journey of loss and hope through the following chapters:

Left Behind, Slipping Into Another World, Laughter—The Best Medicine, It Happened on Monday, When the Day Turned Dark, Woman's Best Friend, The Christmas Runaways, You're Going to Be a What?, Out of the Nest, Out of Africa, Back to Reality, Housedresses and Bare Feet, Who Cares?, The Enigmatic Decade, Life on the Compound, Learning to Flex, The Daily Dozen, The Stone at the Bottom of the Pond.