Headline : Grief made me lose my balance. Heres how I learned to walk forward again

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The writer in Amalfi, Italy, where her grandfather is from. Alan Martín Caudillo hide caption

The writer in Amalfi, Italy, where her grandfather is from.

Days before I would leave for the Amalfi Coast, I tumbled down my patio stairs. My partner heard the crash of glass and found me on the ground in the fervid New Mexico sun, my fingers clenching a mug's handle, the only part intact. My right hand bled. My left knee throbbed.

For certain, I was giddy with anticipation to return to a beloved writing conference in Positano and to spend a few days in nearby Amalfi, where my father's father was from. But lodged within the seams of my excitement also lived anxiety-ridden grief, stubborn and taut.

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