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When collective mourning provides what family cannot

My mom died last month and strangers at the community grief circle understand me better than my own siblings

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Sometimes we must seek strangers to witness our pain when those who share our loss cannot hold the weight of their own.

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“Where Are You with Collective grief — mourning public figures and tragedies?”

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