When We See You Again

Once upon a time, I was meandering down the road of life with my husband, Jon. It was a regular, beige life, and it worked. It was a warm beige. We felt, and were, blessed and lucky—normal.

On the morning of October 7, 2023, Rachel Goldberg‑Polin’s beloved 23‑year‑old son, Hersh, was stolen from a music festival billed as a celebration of unity and love, and in that moment her life was forever separated into The Before and The After. Over the next eleven months, she and Jon worked tirelessly—both in public and behind the scenes—to secure the hostages’ release and to breathe humanity into a situation that inflicted relentless emotional and psychological torment. Her raw, fervent pleas soon made her the face of the hostage crisis. When Hersh and five other captives were executed after surviving 328 days of violence and cruelty, she also became the face of its ultimate cost.

In *When We See You Again*, Rachel pours her pain, love, and longing onto paper, giving voice to the broken among us and reminding us that even when the world feels choked with darkness, light exists in a different way. How do we find it? Her own experience is extreme, but at its essence this is a universal story of trying to live with grief—a story of how we remember and persevere, of how we suffer and how we love.

“There are days when I break completely,” she writes. “I have cried for an entire day straight. I didn’t think it was physically possible, but the weeping never let up. That is a very long time to cry. I kept hoping I would run out of tears. And then there are days when there is a whisper of sun. Not out there in the sky. In me. In us.”

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