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When family members have conflicting views of who their loved one really was

My adult daughter and I have been trying to plan my husband's memorial service for two months and we keep getting into fights about what he would have wanted, and I'm realizing we might have known completely different versions of the same person.

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Grief is revealing that shared love doesn't guarantee shared understanding, and the difference feels like another loss.

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