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Why discovering ancestors' difficult circumstances can haunt us

I discovered my great-great-grandmother was a mail-order bride and I can't stop thinking about what her life must have been like.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Empathetic connection to ancestral suffering creates vicarious grief across generational boundaries.

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