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How to process grief when you discover painful truths after someone dies

I found out my dad had another family in another state after he died, and now I do not know how to grieve someone who was apparently living a double life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Learning devastating information about the dead forces us to simultaneously grieve who we thought they were and reckon with who they actually were.

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