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There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your hea...more

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I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the paramete...more

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What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of the universe - either becau...more

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words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

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I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

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Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?"I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

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If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

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My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

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Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be snea...more

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The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs...more

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I used to wonder about the fake pictures that came in frames you buy at the store—ladies with smooth brown hair and show-me smiles, grapefruit-headed ...more

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Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aidbeing ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbellyof a h...more

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There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you...more

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See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a t...more

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You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick enough for this family.