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Zach Hannah: “Why I Keep Asking the Dying Men in My Life to Promise Me a Few More Years”

Why I Keep Asking the Dying Men in My Life to Promise Me a Few More Years Because my earliest memories are of being promised the opposite. Because I know exhaustion is silent and any words will do. Because I want to be more peace than regrets. Because i am chewing at deficits. Because I’ve …

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Tongue of Grief

Petya Dubarova lived in Burgas, Bulgaria. She was a young poet with a fascinating career ahead of her. She took her own life when she was sixteen years of age. I think that she had a very promising career as poet ahead of her. The questions I have are the following. Was she depressed, was …

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Henry Vinson Looks at the Different Ways Men and Women Grieve the Loss of a Loved One

Losing a loved one is traumatic for both men and women. However, it is also true that, generally speaking and largely due to cultural and social conditioning, men and women experience and express grief differently. Understanding and appreciating these differences can go a long way towards helping both the bereaved and the members of their …

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I am searching. I still can’t find her. I look where the cats claw the hardwood floors, at shreds of paper that tumble in and out of my periphery. Above the bend of my neighbor’s high-pitched cackle, at each shadow that moves and disappears. A thump outside or a flash of light. They all send …

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