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BOOK ON GRIEF IS SMALL BUT POWERFUL NO DETOURS GO AROUND PAIN.(LIFESTYLE)(IMAGES)(Column)

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From: The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Date: 20040127
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Byline: Barbara Quirk

"Life goes on ... I just forget why."

-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

There have been too many funerals lately. Treasured friends have died in such rapid succession that there has not been time to even begin processing the losses.

At one of the wakes I met a woman whose husband of many years died just a few months ago. "I think of you often," I told her honestly. "I have been thinking about you because I have a book on grief that has been sitting on my desk that I have been meaning to send you."

The widow told me about a book on grief that ...

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