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Her description of grief felt so familiar. 30 years later and it all still rings true.
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Wow! What a beautiful portrait of what it was liked to be loved so deeply by a father, who seemed like an irreplaceable man. It helps em connect with my friend who also lost her father.
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This was heartbreaking but something that came to me at the right time. Adichie is a brilliant writer and never takes more words than needed, her writing is beautiful.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Death of parent
Minor: Racism, Kidnapping, War
“but later it is because I want to sit alone with my grief. i want to protect—hide? hide from?—these foreign sensations, this bewildering series of hills and valleys. there is a desperation to shrug off this burden, and then a competing longing to cosset it, to hold it close. is it possible to be possessive of one’s pain? i want to become known to it, i want it known to me.”
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