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A woman who I never met, changed my life.

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We are all broken in some way.

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The hardest funerals to attend are the ones for people who are still living.

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I haven’t spoken to my grandmother since the day before she died. I wish I was one of those people who are convinced they’ve at some point felt the presence of those who’ve passed on. I don’t feel my grandmother anywhere.

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We love, we lose, and then love all over again. Is that insanity or courage?

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I will admit that until these two deaths, I was a bit of a skeptic—not about whether or not the virus existed or not, but of the grave danger it posed to human life.

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You will feel grief far beyond the initial moments after someone you love dies. 

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I once read something that compared grief to walking through a cold, dark tunnel. For anyone who has recently lost somebody, your tunnel may seem extra long right now, but I promise you there is still going to be light at the end of it.

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The only way to get him out of my head was to forgive him, which seemed like an impossible task at first.

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If your mother was anything like mine, then her spirit deserves to be remembered.