Looking around the circle, she saw everyone around her feeling what she was feeling, sharing her pain. They were celebrating Prem’s presence in her life and mourning his loss from it. They were dividing and diffusing and diluting her pain, the pain she had carried around with her for so long. She had mistakenly thought that if the people who knew and loved her best—Dad, Mom, Izzy (indeed, the same people who had known Prem best)—if they couldn’t help lessen her pain, then no one could, ever. But, as Micah had explained to her the previous night, the Sanctuary was here for her, not only to
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