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Meet My ‘Dead Mom Friends’ by Andrea I. Stagg I’ve found kinship (but no judgment or pity) among my friends — and even acquaintances — who have also experienced a loss of a parent.
The Un-Telling by Noa Silver I shared our pregnancy news early — asserting that I wanted my community with me in joy, but also in potential sorrow. Now that I had miscarried, there were so many calls to make.
Giving Birth at the Age Mom Died by Anna Whiston-Donaldson I had my children young, keeping in mind that my own mother died 46. Now I’m 46, missing my mother, grieving my 12-year-old son, and also happily, unexpectedly pregnant.
Hillary Clinton’s Condolence Note to a Newly Bereaved Mother by Modern Loss But this one is a condolence note to a mother whose baby died at four days old.
‘Call It Grief and Then See if it Changes How You View it’ by Nishta J. Mehra 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.
How I’m Creating the Grief Vocabulary My Language Doesn’t Have by Babet te Winkel The Dutch wish each other strength to move through tough times. But in loss, we need different words of support.
Dad-Die Issues by Yassir Lester Death brings up so many feelings and conversations. Plans to be made. Legacies to cement. I had none of that.

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