Four years to the day since she stood in this same spot and looked out at this same view. It was Ap– four years since my mother died. Rangers often give the same unsatisfying answer: Wind. Visitors always ask how the canyon was formed. It is a place that magnifies the questions in your mind and keeps the answers to itself. Everything about that view is impossible, a landscape that seems to defy both physics and description. I stood and looked down into the canyon, at a spot where, millions of years ago, a river cut through. If you are at risk, please stop here and contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline for support. Trigger warning: This story explores suicide, including the details of how the author’s mother took her own life.
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