Uncovering Hidden Truths: Jacque Gorelick’s Journey Through Love, Loss, and Redemption in Map of a Heart
MB: My 4-month-old granddaughter and her parents live with us. Having a newborn is labor intensive and exhausting. It must have been weird, and like you said, surreal. You have a new life, moving forward. Looking at this like, who is he and who is going to be? And the possibility that you’re also looking at death. How do you do joy and not joy?
JG: It was joyful being a mother, and I knew I loved him immensely, and I wanted nothing but the best for the future. I look back and I’m impressed with how I did it, and I’m kind of not surprised because that’s the nurturer, the teacher I am by nature. But it became a little bit perfunctory because, obviously, the massive focus was on Ed. I was divided between the two people I loved most.
