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Ernest Hemingway's famous six-word short story "For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn" brings back painful memories for the author of losing their son Ben during childbirth. The story transports the author back to dealing with unused baby gifts and supplies after Ben's death. Though a difficult time, being fully present in each moment and feeling surrender helped the author process their grief. It took time, but the author eventually removed all remnants of preparing for Ben, including the never-worn baby shoes.
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Baby shoes never worn
- 1. Baby Shoes Never Worn When I came across Ernest Hemingway's six lines short story I started to cry. For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn. The biggest event of my life was the death of my son Ben. He was never after a very normal pregnancy and I went into labor at full term spontaneously. He just didn't make it. The signs were there at towards the end of the labor that he was in distress and so I was taken into theatre for an emergency c-section. Ben never breathed outside the womb. That’s why Ernest Hemingway's six line short story made me cry. For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn. It’s funny how six words can transport you to another world. That really difficult world of wondering what to do with all the baby stuff that we had acquired, those gifts that people had sent in anticipation of the birth, those hand-me-downs that other mothers had promised me would come in handy. That pile of cloth nappies that I'd been eco-minded and think that I'd be washing. Instead they got used as rags. Heartbreaking. And the very strange thing about that whole time of Ben's death, the funeral, his wee coffin, scattering the ashes in the river and the tears that would not stop flowing was the complete clarity and realization that only in the present moment was everything okay. It was immediately apparent that the past was too painful. It was full of memory of being so happily and joyfully expectant. And the future was too daunting. It was full of empty dreams and baby shoes that had never been worn. Yet, when I could keep my mind from its
- 2. wanderings into past or future, I found myself feeling blessed. Feeling strangely wonderful. Powerfully moved. Heartbroken with such incredible love. Sitting with that feeling of surrender and of powerlessness was so very humbling and I would not change it for the world. I was blessed by that experience. I did get rid of all the baby stuff and baby shoes eventually. It took me a while. I remember nine months later emptying a chest of drawers and put the radio on to hear of Lady Diana's death. Her six line story equally heartbreaking: Car crash. Princess dies. Motherless boys.I didn't put those baby shoes up for sale. I put my heart up for breaking again and again.