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How being an only child creates anticipatory memory grief

I'm an only child and when my parents die I'll be the last person who remembers my childhood, and that terrifies me more than their actual death.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Only children face the unique burden of becoming sole keeper and eventual destroyer of family memory and shared history.

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