Every year, there are a few holidays that, or even days that just are exceptionally difficult. June 23rd, Christmas, Thanksgiving, the 4th of July, Halloween, my birthday, and February 27th, my brother's birthday.

I'm going to try really hard to get through this one because I think it's really important,

but it's going to be a difficult one.

So here's a disclaimer.

This episode's going to be hard.

It's going to be hard for me.

It may be hard to listen to.

But, like everything else, there's joy and sadness.

So, welcome to episode 15 of the Run, Self-Repeerate

podcast. My name is Kelly Roberts. And today, I'm going to talk about something that is really

hard and awful and tragic and unfair. Grief. The way I experience grief is like,

do you know those water slides that are straight down? Well, imagine that you're standing over one

and the way the water slide works is that someone just pulls the floor that you're standing on out from under you and you just fall.

And sometimes it hurts really bad.

Other times it's just disorienting.

And other times you just have that weird, uncomfortable sense in your stomach.

For me, that's a lot like what grief is.

And it can be brought on by anything.

Sometimes I'll be, you know, walking down the street and I'll see...

And I'll see a kid in the skater clothes and I'll lose it.

Or sometimes, like, I'll be in the grocery store and I'll see, like, and I'll see

Doritos.

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