"It turns out that the river that ripped my family apart has only deepened my love for them. Taking care of loved ones—that’s another act of survival. The ones who are happy and the ones who are hurt. The ones who are here and the ones who are gone."
In his follow-up story, published one month shy of the first anniversary of the floods, Parsley shares his journey through grief and healing.
Read his story, and the many others in this month’s issue, here: