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Why keeping deceased loved ones' belongings becomes torment

I cannot throw away my daughter's toothbrush even though she died two years ago and it is sitting there every morning reminding me she will never brush her teeth again.

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Objects meant to comfort have become daily witnesses to irreversible absence.

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