When my adult daughter introduced us happily to her significant other, it was practically love at first sight. The two seemed a natural match, not only for one another, but also to my husband and myself. While the two navigated the ups and downs of their budding relationship, we became more and more attached to…
Read MoreIn her 2005 memoir “The Year of Magical Thinking,” recounting both joyful and painful memories of love and loss in her family, the writer and author Joan Didion counsels readers that “grief when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be.” We ask ourselves what is “normal” for us to feel when faced with…
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