The Cruelest Month, Part 1: Hurricane Bettye | MZS
The title of this series comes from a line in T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land": April is the cruelest month. It's certainly the cruelest month for me. I don't understand how so many tragedies managed to gather so close together within the span of 31 days. I do know from talking to other people that sometimes it happens this way, and there's no useful explanation for it. It's just one of those things. On April 2 of this year, I lost my mother, Bettye Seitz, with who I had a long and contentious relationship. On April 27 of last year, I lost my second wife, Nancy, to metastatic breast cancer...
Source: rogerebert.com