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Dying is hard. Living is harder. Even harder is living on when life is fractured by timeless deaths. It takes an instant for death to become a fact, a single point in a time line, which eclipses all things in the past and eliminates any possibility for the future.
— Mar 21, 2026 02:05AM
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Costel Paslaru
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Sometimes people ask me where I am in the grieving process, and I wonder whether they understand anything at all about losing someone.
— Mar 25, 2026 02:11PM
Costel Paslaru
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What can parents do but give their children the space to be, and allow them to do what they need so they can become more of themselves? And yet, despite the parents' efforts, and despite all the beings and doings that occur as the children grow, some among them die before their time.
— Mar 21, 2026 02:02AM
Costel Paslaru
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And yet life is still to be lived, inside tragedies, outside tragedies, and despite tragedies.
— Mar 21, 2026 01:59AM
Costel Paslaru
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My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.
— Mar 21, 2026 01:58AM
