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What to Say to a Grandchild Who Is Hurting
On a bus ride into Bruges this summer, I sat near a family I couldn't stop watching. A father telling the worst dad jokes you can imagine, a mother giving him grief about it, a grandfather one row up, and a teenage granddaughter sitting beside her grandmother who was clearly carrying something heavy.
I spent the whole ride trying to make sense of it, the way we all do when we need a tidy answer we can put a bow on. Everything I could gather told me this was a loving family. I never learned the rest of the story, and I never will.
What stayed with me was a question I couldn't put down. What…
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