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For Your Perspective

The day your dad dies you will be seventeen years old. You will be in the middle of creating a bullet journal page for the upcoming year. You will be sitting in front of your couch and making a habit tracker page. You will use hearts as the markers for February. You will forget to fill it in as the time passes. You will be on day 13, you’ll draw a heart with a red marker and write a small number 13 in the middle of the heart. Your house will have a long hallway that connects

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1,721 days later

My father has been dead for over 4 years, 1,721 days to be exact. You would think that by now I would be better or “fixed” but in reality: the culture surrounding grief is fucked. Nobody really knows how to handle it and many people chalk it up to “I’m sorry”. Megan Devine, author of It’s OK That You’re Not OK does an amazing job of dissecting grief and showing how skewed this culture has made it. Grief is looked at as a gross tumor implanted in peoples lives when they lose s

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