This shirt is such a tangible link to the past. It's a connection, a rope to hold onto that's tied to days gone by on its other end. And what if the link breaks? The connection lost? The rope snaps? It feels like I'd lose a little piece of my history, a little piece of me.
We recognize and lament the cuts we've all taken to the bone and the excruciating pain that has cracked us through to the very core.... And we take a deep breath, lift our eyes up and away from the grief that clings to us like mud on shoes, and we understand that, in fact, we have a much bigger problem.