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"I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us."

"I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead."
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Wouldn’t be right to rate. Worth reading. 
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Moving and honest about grief—but wow, the privilege was hard to ignore.
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Grief is universal. Having the means to deal with it like Didion is not. 
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no book has ever left me in such a state i don’t think. i kept having to put it down and just digest what was being said. i have never experienced grief and yet i felt as if i was experiencing it right alongside her.
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