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Grief Is a Dancer: A mother reflects on the rigor and beauty of grief, 25 years after losing her child
Written by Alisa Bair
Narrated by Alisa Bair
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With her bracing storytelling, Bair shows what it’s like for her family to seek equilibrium after their unspeakable loss of 8-year-old Kelly. Bair proposes that grief is an intuitive, loving, life-long partner in sorrow, not something to “get over.”
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