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Reflections on a Lonely Year - by Katie Hawkins-Gaar

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The second year of grief can be a lot harder than the first.

Everyone’s experience of loss is different. And yet, there are a few universal bits of advice that get passed around grief groups—pieces of hard-earned wisdom that are generally agreed upon. One of those truths is that the second year after a major loss is, in many ways, harder than the first. This is something that you absolutely do not want to hear in your initial year of grief. It's the kind of hard truth that you automatically reject: That won’t apply to me! But, somehow, it does apply. At least, it did for me and many other young widows I know. To be fair, the second year after a…

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