Birds Still Sing When It Rains

What comes next when the ending isn’t happy?

Jacqueline Dooley
Grief Book Club
Published in
7 min readAug 1, 2021

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Photo by Jacqueline dooley

Everything I love about happy endings is represented in the following brief montage of “cheating death” moments from a few of my favorite movies.

It’s about ET, whose heart light went out, but was (immediately) rekindled by the love of the boy who ultimately saved him.

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Jacqueline Dooley
Grief Book Club

Essayist, content writer, bereaved parent. Bylines: Human Parts, GEN, Marker, OneZero, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Pulse, HuffPost, Longreads, Modern Loss