How do you respond to a stranger when you remind them of their dead relative? | Brigid Delaney

Her eyes are swimming in tears. I wish I had responded with a bit more grace or given her a hug A few days ago I'm sitting in a train going down the coast. I can feel eyes on me. It's the woman sitting in the seat across the aisle. I assume she's staring past me to look out my window, but after a while I clock she's staring at me. It's the sort of stare you can feel. I write in my journal for a bit, check Twitter, look out the window. Eventually she speaks. She asks my name then says, "I can't s...