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When discovering private documents changes how you see the dead

I found love letters my parents wrote to each other during the war and now I understand their marriage completely differently and I wish I hadn't read them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The intimate archives of the dead can reveal selves we were never meant to know, complicating our grief with unwanted knowledge.

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“Where Are You with Grief and legacy — how the dead continue to live in us?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.