January 8, 2024 | By: Freda Washington-Perez Settling into the task of sharing the circumstances that led to addressing unacknowledged grief, Sherry took a deep breath and started. Challenged on how she ended up on a zoom laying bare memories of her husband Jerry Dwight Laymon some 50 years after his untimely death, a victim of an unsolved homicide. Her face registered brief concern in having done enough. As she shares glimpses of her 50-year journey, one that teeters between sharing a life full of happy times and second chances at love and motherhood, underlying sadness could be missed. Her shared memories feel warm and full. Then she gets to the work of explaining the “what if’s” of her life…of Jerry. Jerry and Sherry first met in elementary school in the mid-1950’s, she laughed at that memory recall. She hadn’t thought much about Jerry back then, “he was short, an easy to miss kid…” that was, until he returned their 2nd year at Circle High School, in budding... Read More