... I thought he would be ruined.

a jewelry designer

 

 

When we are thoroughly sad, the eyes become dry and it takes several months to shed tears. I thought why my husband didn't know such a thing when he said, "You never cry in the face of your child's death." I couldn't cry all the more for thinking that he would be ruined when I heard that he, who had been famous for a dandy, was wandering around with a trench coat inside down after the child's death.  With this thing and that she divorced with him afterword.  

 

April 3, 2016

from “Oriori no Kotoba” by Kiyokazu Washida, The Asahi Shimbun