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Kathryn Vercillo's avatar

Our (Western) culture really doesn't make a lot of space for grieving, especially the grieving of lost opportunities, lost loves, lost pets ... These words help. <3

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Mary Carroll Moore's avatar

How amazing these are, Jane--each one so profound in its truth. Grief is such a weird and unexpected animal. When we've lived through enough deaths and losses, we can begin to know some of the many ways it'll shake the world for us, turning normal things into moments of outrage or extreme fatigue or mental blank. I think it's one of the most complicated experiences/feelings I've ever lived through, each time so unique. Thanks for all these voices around it. There's definitely solace in community when grieving even though it's intensely private.

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