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‘Call It Grief and Then See if it Changes How You View it’
Grief can have a clarifying effect, a way of lasering away the mundane. Here's how you can apply some lessons from loss to this year's surreal new world.
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How I’m Creating the Grief Vocabulary My Language Doesn’t Have
The Dutch wish each other strength to move through tough times. But in loss, we need different words of support.
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Dad-Die Issues
Death brings up so many feelings and conversations. Plans to be made. Legacies to cement. I had none of that.
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Are You My Papi?
As a young man, I lost my father to AIDS-related illness. Now I search for echoes of him in the men I choose to love.
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My Instagram Therapy
With @textsforjohn, I can still walk through the world looking for things to share with my brother — even though he’s no longer here.
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When My Husband Died, Facebook Became My Boyfriend
Some people see social media as a trigger during times of great suffering. But after my husband died, it helped me stay afloat amid my grief.
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Saving the Date for a Wedding That Will Never Take Place
I was supposed to be married on November 9, but tragedy stopped this self-proclaimed ‘Bridezilla’ in her tracks.