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Mother loss
This whole series has been gripping and moving. It's so comforting to be invited into a community of grief, bonding around deep truths that can somehow be shared through story and gesture despite their being, in the end, private and unreachable. I was especially struck by your expressed wish not to recover, to hang on to your grief--because ...
Posted to Grieving by tochter on October 16, 2009
Your thoughtful and moving series
You have captured it so well, the endlessly complex and painful vicissitudes of mother-loss. I'm so sorry about your mother. Losing her when she was still in her prime truly must feel unbearable. My mother died in January, at 85, after a journey I can only describe as endlessly complicated, not just medically, but in every other way. I have begun ...
Posted to Grieving by MHolmesI on April 10, 2009