There have been tears, insomnia, headaches, anger. There have been mornings of waking to a temporary amnesia before she has remembered this new reality and the shock has hit her again and afresh, as though she is learning it for the first time. There has been the chasm deep in the pit of her stomach, as though her body is not yet ready to acknowledge her loss. There have been those rare moments she has been so busy with funeral arrangements that she has, perversely, forgotten that it is her father who has died. And then she has remembered and the guilt that she had forgotten, even momentarily,
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