I stayed calm through engaging with people and stayed around positive energy, trying to make sense of what was happening in my life all of a sudden. I stayed in prayer and kept speaking God's word back to him for justice. Reading was my biggest strength of getting  through, and listening to other people express their trauma of grief at different groups and conferences. I did not allow grief to consume me because I had to fight for what is just and fair for my son's life and still am fighting. People who experience this kind of trauma needs to surrender and stay in touch with people that understand what they are going through. Seek God and if they do not know him they should seek him for themselves because it does help. Without him I really don't know where I would be. Life is precious nowadays and mothers should fight for justice.

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Alethia Hickson