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The grief nobody sends flowers for. Brothers and sisters, at any age, however long ago.
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The grief nobody sends flowers for. Brothers and sisters, at any age, however long ago.
Nine years this month and I still reach for my phone to tell her things.
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Losing a child
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He would have been four on Sunday. We are buying a cake anyway.
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Suicide loss
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For the questions that have no answers. Method talk is removed, always, by people who understand why.
I stopped needing to know why. That took six years and I am not sure it is progress.
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Cancer, all kinds
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The smell of the ward is what gets me. Not the funeral. The ward.
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Sudden and accidental
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Road, heart, accident, overnight. For people who never got a last conversation.
She left for work. That is the whole story and it is still the whole story.
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Losing a parent young
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For people who lost a mum or dad before thirty, and keep meeting people who cannot imagine it.
I am older now than she ever got to be. Nobody warned me about that day.
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Animals we lost
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Sixteen years of him waiting at the door. The door is the worst part.
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The first ninety days
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A room you leave when you are ready. Newly bereaved only, no long-timers giving advice.
Day eleven. I am posting because I cannot sleep and everyone else can.
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Widowed at any age, married or not. For people who lost the person they told everything to.
I still cook for two. I have stopped trying to fix that.
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Grieving young
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Everyone my age is worried about exams and I am worried about who signs my forms now.
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For people grieving someone still alive. Terminal diagnoses, dementia, the long goodbye.
She looked at me today like a stranger being polite. I went home and grieved someone who is still here.
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