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When grief makes you talk to the dead

My mother died six months ago and I keep finding myself talking to her picture like she can hear me, asking her questions about mundane things like what to cook for dinner. I feel crazy but also like it's the only thing keeping me sane.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The boundary between presence and absence becomes permeable when love refuses to acknowledge death's finality.

Ideas that help explain it
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