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I cried for ten minutes yesterday about What If We Lose Stephen Sondheim who has lived a very long and full life because it’s significantly easier to think about mourning Sondheim than What If One Of My Relatives Dies In Canada And I Never See Them Again And Cannot Go To Their Funeral.

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In the middle of the night, I realized that I was actually a 5.5 because I am going to lose a year of my extended family’s life. The best case scenario is that I am going to miss out on a year of my mother’s life and my father’s life and my stepmom’s life and my aunts’ and uncles’ life. And there is a worst case scenario where we lose more than that. And then I woke up and my best friend had sent me this and it explained it:

https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief

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