PEARL May 1912
We were to leave for Canada in the morning, or rather to Nova Scotia, to Halifax. It was where all the… the bodies were being taken, those they could find.
It had been nearly two weeks since I lost my family, two weeks of swimming underwater; every movement, every thought, a slow, painful undertaking. I had my darling husband and beautiful daughter, yes, but there was something untethering to lose the whole of the family you were born into. Suddenly, you became a marionette without any strings.
The message had been strangely curt, though I assumed it was because of the vast number of them that had to be sent. Come here and see if you can find them. Those weren"t the exact words of it but they might as well have been.
We learned more from the newspapers who fed greedily o
