Q: If I can still remember the person I’ve lost, will I still miss them? Will I still feel sad sometimes? After sleeping at the Poppy Fields, the pain that first brought you here will have largely subsided. You will hurt less. You will cry less. You will anguish less. But you will always miss the lost person in some capacity, as there will always be an empty space where they once stood. Healing is not a purely linear process, and heightened feelings of sadness may be triggered by anniversaries or other potent reminders, but the pain will never feel all-consuming again. Many former patients
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