These Are Not Conditions in Which to Thrive
This is a time to survive. Your only responsibility is to get through today.
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The Dollhouse Obituary
“There is a beautiful, even respectful, relief in honoring people for who they really were.”
Read MoreHerpes And Shame, Six Years Later
Healing isn’t fun or narratively appealing: it’s a whole lot of pulling off scabs and dissecting long broken bones that didn’t set properly. It’s hard.
Read MoreHow to Feel When the Good Die Young
The only thing I can compare her death to is if someone picked up the needle from a record in the middle of a song—no scratch, just sudden silence where there used to be a voice and rhythm and the strum of a guitar. You wonder if silence has ever been this loud before.
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