[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.

Mama said it’s probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don’t think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don’t remember.