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    The Grief We're Given
    The Grief We're Given
    The Grief We're Given
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    The Grief We're Given

    By William Bortz

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    The Grief We’re Given explores the collective and personal experience of grief and grieving through themes and tropes such as relationships, love, loss, nature, eternity, and hope as a thinning, but exuberant, door. How are we to learn to grieve when it feels unrelenting? How are we to adore and memorialize small moments of appreciation? How are we to shape our grief into something worth celebrating, and begin to understand the grief we give?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCentral Avenue Publishing
    Release dateFeb 2, 2021
    ISBN9781771682206
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