so there is no way to connect or relate it to anything else. It doesn’t fit. The brain cannot make this new reality fit. Like your heart, your brain resists this loss—it can’t possibly be true. Those blips and gaps in your memory and thought process are the brain trying to make data fit into a world that cannot absorb that data. Eventually, it will understand that this loss can’t fit inside the structures that used to be. It will have to make new pathways, new mental relationships, wiring this loss into the person you are becoming, every day. You aren’t crazy. You aren’t broken. Your brain is
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