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A Lesson on The Right Way to Grieve
When you lose someone you love, good people do what good people do: they try and help.
They see you in the deepest despair and they want desperately to pull you out, to rescue you, to numb the pain, to stop the bleeding.
There's a helplessness that comes from watching someone they care for suffer and in their urgency to alleviate that suffering, they will do something that is rarely helpful in such moments: they will use words.
With the most noble of intentions they will speak the simple platitudes they have heard others speak to those who grieve. They will attempt to neatly wrap up the…
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