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How friend groups handle grief and tradition

My college friends and I have been planning our annual reunion for months but ever since Jake died last spring none of us can figure out how to be together without him — do we talk about him constantly or try to have fun like we used to, and we're all afraid of getting it wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love for someone absent is competing with love for each other present, and no one knows which should win.

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