the image of a mother holding her child till their last breath while drowning broke something within all of us so heartbreaking, yet so powerful what must she have been thinking how scared they would have been yet how safe the child must have felt in her arms even then, she would have tried to soothe his fear and pain holding him close to her heart the breath may have shallowed the love didn't the resolve to keep him safe didn't what were her last thoughts to her child maybe