Patton Oswalt took to Facebook and let us in on his beautiful thoughts regarding his wife’s death, one year after her passing.  He took us back to the morning he realized Michelle McNamara was no longer with him.

His sentiments: it’s awful but it’s not fatal.

His heartbreaking and honest statement was so touching that it went viral.

“Last night I took off my wedding ring. I couldn’t bear removing it since April 21st, 2016. But now it felt obscene. That anonymous poem about the man mourning his dead lover for a year and a day, for craving a kiss from her “clay cold lips.” I was inviting more darkness. Removing the ring was removing the last symbol of denial of who I was now, and what my life is, and what my responsibilities are.”

Read his entire post below: