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When searching for meaning distorts memory of loss

My son died by suicide and I keep replaying our last conversation looking for signs I missed but I cannot tell if I am remembering it accurately anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The need to understand tragedy can transform recollection into endless interrogation.

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