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Why losing witnesses feels like losing yourself

I'm 28 and my grandmother is dying and she's the only person who really knew me, and when she goes I feel like proof I existed goes with her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Death of significant others threatens the continuity of personal identity.

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