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When sacred spaces get altered by institutional needs

I visit my mom's grave every Sunday but the cemetery is expanding and they're paving over the meadow where I used to sit with her and I feel like they're erasing our ritual.

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The commodification of death disrupts the intimate geographies where grief finds its expression.

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