Grief can be incredibly lonely. Even when people show up and love you as best they can, they aren’t really with you in this. They can’t be. It so very much sucks that, in large part, you are in this alone. And also, you can’t do this alone. You may find that people come in and out of your life during this time. There are people who were instrumental in helping me survive those first few weeks who eventually moved back into their own lives, their own needs. They came into my life for a time, and then we let each other go. It hurt, that they had their own intact lives to get back to, but for a
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