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Why we keep dead people's things exactly as they left them

I keep my deceased husband's coffee cup dirty in the sink because washing it feels like erasing the last proof he was here and it has been eight months.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The untouched becomes a shrine to presence that can never return.

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