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When people expect gratitude to cure grief

It has been two years since my stillbirth and people act like I should be grateful for my living children but I still mourn the one I never got to hold.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The heart's capacity for simultaneous joy and sorrow confounds those who prefer simple emotions.

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