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Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

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But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

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Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

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If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

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One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

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My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

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Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

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When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

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And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

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There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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