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“I wrote sad essays, which never found their narrative thrust.”
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“She studied philosophy in graduate school before moving to New York City, where she became a literary agent.”
“Yet, in the midst of my own grief story, I was cracking.”
“But I no longer allow the books I agent nor the ones I write to substitute for being in the moment with my real life.”
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“It was months after my mother’s senseless death in a car accident, and I was at the dentist again.”
““How long will it last?” I asked.”
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“A part of me felt like Veda Sultenfuss from My Girl , with that invisible chicken bone down her throat.”
““Have you thought about therapy?” the doctor asked gently.”
“I began to name my emotions instead of just intellectualizing them.”
“There was the Pulitzer-nominated journalist who’d lost her only child when he was seven.”
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“Then she said words I’ll never forget.”
“I needed to get back to doing my job.”
“I needed my teeth to stop breaking.”
“A few months later, I went to the doctor’s for my annual physical.”
“I am not supposed to show an arc of growth and change over time in order for my life and my experiences to have meaning.”
“It was a perfectly contained story, with every narrative thread tied up in a neat bow, showing how one could use grief as a portal to access true strength.”
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“I wrote letters to my mom, which stumbled through bouts of melancholy before I finally admitted there was no plot.”