Even so, she asked questions all the time. When we thought we'd answered them, she'd ask them again. This went on for a long time. Yes, it was hard, but it was part of all of us trying to assimilate what had happened to our family. We stumbled and we fell, but we always tried to be honest.
Children understand death in widely different ways depending on their ages.
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