What's the best way to initiate a difficult and painful conversation about the untimely passing of one of your children? Carla Gugino knows, it's taking time out from your rescue mission on the way to an earthquake zone to say these exact words: "Do you ever think what our life would be like if our child hadn't died?" Wow. Writing is hard, everyone understands that, but ... were there not other words? Like, any other words? Granted, it's better than "so, you know our dead kid, right...", but honestly not by much.
