Until We Ride Together Again: My dad's motorcycle

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This essay is a part of WYG's PhotoGrief project. The goal of the PhotoGrief project is to create a space where people can explore and express their grief through pictures. Learn more about the project here.


by Samantha Bryant

We bought my dad's motorcycle from my mom; hauling it back on a trailer over the 4th of July from Michigan to Oklahoma was one of the most grief filled times I have ever experienced. Every time I looked in the rearview mirror and saw that bike it was a deeper realization that he was gone. Finding a way to commemorate him on the bike has helped change it from a primary reminder of loss to a reminder of a way in which he is still here with me.



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