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The Year of Magical Thinking
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Start date
May 20, 2017
Finish date
June 4, 2017

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Sarah
Jun 06, 2016 rated it liked it
"Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such an imagined death. We misconstrue the nature of even those few days or weeks.
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In the version of grief we imagine, the model will be “healing.” A certain forward movement will prevail. The worst days will be the earliest days. We imagine that the moment to most severely test us will be the funer
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