To a student of mine who's suffered a major loss

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Being a teacher @PineTree is not just about teaching, learning, getting involved in the annual planning activities, giving a ride to my students on their way to school or even having lunch with some of them... It is also about being there for them in the saddest moment of their lives... Yesterday, it was one of those moments!... A student of mine lost her father in a tragic and unexpected way!... Together with some other teachers and most of her classmates, I went to the funeral and attended both the religious service and the burial... The principal of our school, as well as her team, were also there, which made it all even more meaningful!... I felt an overwhelming energy was generated in that place. As part of a school community, all of us were there to give our support, trying to lessen her pain...
Whenever I got the chance to hold her, I held her like a mother holds her frightened, crying child...

I felt her heart crying tears of anguish, right against my chest!... And I cried, as well... Silently... I believe in the healing power of crying, in the healing power of words, in the healing power of hugs and in the healing power of music. I therefore dedicate her this song... She will endure disturbing feelings throughout her grief... But she will become stronger out of that distress, more than she can imagine!...

source: allfamousquotes.net

"Tears in Heaven" is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend, on March 20, 1991. Clapton, who arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident, was visibly distraught for months afterwards. This song is one of Clapton's most successful, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the US.  

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