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When your deceased parent's writings reveal hurtful truths

I am editing my late father's memoir from files on his computer but I keep finding drafts where he writes honestly about how disappointed he was in me and I do not know whether to include them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Posthumous honesty can force difficult reckonings with relationships that can no longer be repaired.

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