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How grief passes through music and memory

My Irish grandmother used to cry when she heard certain songs and now those same songs make me cry and I never even asked her why.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Emotional responses can transfer across generations without conscious understanding of their origins.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Historical grief — intergenerational mourning?”

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