title: From My Heart: Expressions of a Grieving Mother
author: Lisa McCann
description: My name is Lisa Angela McCann, I live in Cambridge, Ontario. I am a mother of three, I have one son Shaun who was twenty seven at the time of his death and I have two daughters Jessilee 26 and Angel 22. This book is written in memory of my son whowas tragically murdered on December 6th 2012.
  						    	
  						        	--This text refers to the <a href="/dp/1493122827/ref=dp_bookdescription?_encoding=UTF8&amp;n=283155">Paperback</a> edition.
zlib_text: To Craig Walker
  (who was next to me on 9/11)
  and
  To Eliot Schrefer
  (who was across the table when
  I wrote most of this book)
  
  WHAT JUST HAPPENED
  
  (Part One)
  
  MY FIRST THOUGHT
  Claire
  My �rst thought is: My mother is
  dead.
  When Mrs. Shields, the school
  secretary, shows up so gravely in the
  doorway and gestures for Mrs. Otis
  to come over to her, I am sure that
  my mother has died, that I am now
  going to have to pack up my books
  and go to Sammy’s school and
  collect him and tell him that Mom is
  
  dead and I’m all he has now and
  somehow we’ll get by. I am so sure
  that something is wrong, incredibly
  wrong, and I can’t imagine what
  else it could be. I am already
  gathering my books as Mrs. Shields
  whispers to Mrs. Otis. I see Mrs. Otis
  nod, distressed, and then Mrs.
  Shields disappears back into the hall.
  I sit up straighter, waiting for Mrs.
  Otis to look at me, to say my name.
  But instead she looks at all of us and
  says, “Class, a plane has hit the
  World Trade Center.”
  Katie Johnson gasps. Other 