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How to handle disturbing discoveries after a parent dies

I found my father's journal after he passed and learned things about his marriage to my mother that I wish I never knew and now I feel angry at him for dying before we could talk about it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Death forecloses the possibility of resolution, leaving the living to carry unprocessed revelations alone.

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