Hollowed Heart

The book Fault Lines by a Cornell researcher extrapolated from surveys that 67,000,000 million people in this country have some kind of close family estrangement (27%). The majority is between siblings. 10% is parent-child, most instances started by the child. So that's roughly 6,700,000 broken hearted parents. Here's a painting of what that feels like (based on a photo of polar bears in Siberia that I liked).