Six Goodbyes We Never Said by Candace Ganger

Naima Rodriguez doesn’t want your patronizing sympathy as she grieves her father, her hero—a fallen Marine. She’ll hate you forever if you ask her to open up and remember him “as he was,” though that’s all her loving family wants her to do in order to manage her complex OCD and GAD. She’d rather everyone back the-eff off while she separates her Lucky Charms marshmallows into six, always six, Ziploc bags, while she avoids friends and people and living the life her father so desperately wanted for her. Dew respectfully requests a little more time to process the… Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings
- Ableism
- Racism
- Fatmisia
- Depression
- Social anxiety
- Panic attacks, on-page
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Intrusive thoughts
- Attempted suicide recounted
- Suicidal ideation recounted
- Death during childbirth mentioned
- Anaphylaxis mentioned
- Hospitalisation recounted
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a mother & father
- Car accident recounted