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When a parent dies before you come out to them

My mom died before I came out and I'll never know if she would have accepted me and this unknown haunts me more than any rejection could.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Grief multiplies when death forecloses the possibility of being fully known by those who loved you first.

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