When the Grammys were over, O’Connor returned to Ireland and brought Jake’s sleep suit to her mother’s grave, where she rested it on her tombstone. In her memoir she described this gesture as bringing her mother a “souvenir” from the show, but my gut tells me that it’s more like a sacrifice—a memento of loss symbolic of the grandchild she would never meet, the daughter’s success she would never share. 9 The image is beautiful, and heartbreaking, and, in a way, representative of who O’Connor was: not fearless or flawless, but wounded and courageous.
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