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How to mourn places that are scheduled for destruction

My dad taught me to hunt in these woods twenty years ago and now they want to turn them into a shopping complex and I don't know how to grieve something that isn't dead yet but will be soon.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Anticipatory loss of meaningful places creates a unique form of grief that begins before the actual destruction occurs.

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