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Why keeping remnants of the dead can become torture

I keep my mother's voicemails saved on my phone two years after she passed because deleting them feels like losing her again, but listening to them breaks me apart.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The objects meant to preserve connection can become prisons that prevent the living from moving through their grief.

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