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Scenario

How trying to replace what's lost can amplify the void

My wife's cancer took her voice before it took her life and I recorded myself reading her favorite books aloud but I sound nothing like her and it just makes the absence louder.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Substitution often serves to measure the unmeasurable distance of what's missing.

Your guide for this
Mira
Mira works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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Peri

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