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When celebratory humor erases complex truth

At my father's funeral I gave a speech full of funny stories about him and everyone said it was perfect but I felt like I was lying about who he really was.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The social pressure to memorialize through only positive humor can feel like a betrayal of the full reality of a relationship.

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