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The day after my grams died, a friend sent me a copy of John Dittian's The Year of

Magical Thinking, which I guess was meant to be this handy-dandy Bible for my sadness,

which is totally thoughtful, don't get me wrong, but it was doubling down on sadness

that I wasn't ready to feel in the first place.

So now, John Dittian's memoir about losing her husband and her daughter has been sitting

on the edge of my kitchen table.

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