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Ambiguous loss

Ambiguous loss names grief for situations where something hasn't clearly ended but also isn't what it was—a parent with dementia, a friendship that fades, a career cut short by injury—and the particular difficulty lies in not knowing whether to hold on or let go. Our culture offers rituals for clear death but leaves us stranded when loss is murky.

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