How Getting to Know Death Finally Allowed Me to Grieve

MuddyGirlWrites
7 min readAug 25, 2021
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It would be like sitting too long in a hard chair. Or trying to walk with a pebble in my shoe. A forgotten tag in a new blouse that scratched at my back. I thought that grief would be like that. A magpie funeral. Uncomfortable and painful — but temporary.

Death was still a stranger then.

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MuddyGirlWrites

Former movie popcorn server, singing telegram, celebrity publicist, marketing maven and event producer. Finally adding writer. www.muddygirlmedia.com