
Some grief is loud. There’s a funeral. Flowers. Sympathy cards. A closed casket and open wounds. People show up with casseroles and stories and tears that make sense to everyone in the room.
But then there’s the other kind of grief. The quieter kind. The one that has no rituals, no acknowledgment, no clean ending. It’s the kind you feel when the person you needed… just never showed up. Even when they were right in front of you.
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