Same But Different

People who said that experience was one of the best teachers in the world really knew what they were talking about. There were many things that people could not fully appreciate , until they had been through them. But even though it was true. The fact that Jane had experience in losing a loved one to drowning, was not an experience that she would have liked to have. Let alone go through it a second time. 

The last time that it had happened, Jane, a much younger and softer version of herself, had had no defenses whatsoever against the emotional storm that had come with her husband going from missing to then being found, and declared dead. All the while her daughter had also been missing, and had also been considered as deceased by the majority of the search party. Back then, Jane had waited for news to come to her.