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When you start forgetting details about someone who died

I feel like I am forgetting what my son's voice sounded like even though he only died eight months ago, and this terrifies me more than anything else about grief.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Memory becomes sacred when it is all we have left, making natural forgetting feel like a second abandonment.

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