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A Mother's Pain
It's all over now. The smoke from the explosion is fading. I see more clearly, now that the tears that threatened to surface in those agonizing minutes when I thought Morgan and Reid might not come out of the burning building, are gone.
I see Kathy's face. The look that haunts her eyes is one I'll never forget. My family is intact. My friends are alive. Her daughter is gone. She'll never come back because an evil man seduced her.
Now her mother, who risked her own life to save her daughter, must go off into the night alone. I try to speak to her, to make it better, but I can't because I don't know what to say.
So I leave with my team, my friends, my surrogate family. We fly away, leaving devastated lives behind us. Still, I can't get her face out of my mind. She haunts me, but at the same time, I hope I never forget.
The innocent ones should never be forgotten…