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When family resemblances make grief resurface unexpectedly

My teenage son looks exactly like my dead brother and sometimes when he laughs I have to leave the room because it's too much.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Physical inheritance through generations can ambush us with unwanted resurrections of the dead in the living.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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