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May 23, 2020·1 min read

This is a very important point to make. Grief is not a competition and there are not or should not be elite athletes in the experience of grief.

Deborah Barchi

Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays. 824drb@gmail.com

The truth is that there is no way to measure grief, to hold it side by side to someone else’s and mark one as valid and one as invalid. The loss of a goldfish may not be the stretching, all-consuming ache of the loss of a child, but ei…

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