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How to mourn someone you were estranged from

I found out my estranged brother overdosed last month and no one told me about the funeral, and now I don't know how to grieve someone I was angry at.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Unfinished business with the dead becomes a particular kind of haunting.

Ideas that help explain it
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If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.