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When muscle memory betrays grief acceptance

I keep checking my phone for texts from my dead best friend during boring conference calls, forgetting for split seconds that she won't respond.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Habitual behaviors can ambush mourners with repeated reality checks about permanent absence.

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