Letters to My Father
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Last published Fri, Mar 22, 2024
"If there is a right way to grieve, I'm definitely doing it wrong." These are words I cursed myself with every day.
We're so often told there is no right or wrong way to grieve, so why are we so quickly and surgically picked apart for how we react to very real emotions?
It seems it's time we stopped sugar-coating such inconceivable and truly honest grief; so here is the sour truth presented to you in the letters I wrote to my father.
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