I haven't told anyone doesn't involve letters or Angels or anything like that but it means something to me they were preparing Olivia to say goodbye and my husband was trying to calm my mother in the parking lot cuz she lost it so I was alone and I was sitting there in the waiting room my M's hospital and there was this woman s next to me and she asked me who I was about to lose and I told her and she looked at me and she said just be sure to notice the collateral Beauty I she
she said it's so casually in the Next Room my six-year-old daughter was being taken off life support and this woman says collateral Beauty people don't know what to say in know in those moments no she did I just didn't get it at the time see it it wasn't said out of sympathy or awkwardness it was from experience about a year later something started to happen to me you know I would be walking or on the subway or whatever and I would just burst into tears but these weren't Olivia tears these were tears born from something
else from this from this kind of profound connection to everything and I realized it was the collateral Beauty well there's there's no such thing as collateral Beauty there is Howard there really is it'll never bring her back and it will never ever make it okay but I promise you it's there okay you need to talk to them Howard look um appreciate your story but I'm not really feeling the collateral Beauty thing I don't care yell at them reason with them challenge them just engage I think this was a mistake for
