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When you're grieving someone who never really existed

Everyone says I'm glowing now but I feel like I'm grieving someone who never actually existed in the first place.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mourning the gap between who someone appeared to be and who they actually were requires grieving both presence and absence simultaneously.

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