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When physical traces become sacred relics

My daughter's room still smells like her perfume two weeks after the overdose and I can't decide if I should wash her sheets or keep the scent forever.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The material world holds presence in ways that both comfort and torment the grieving.

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