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How to lose someone – The Creative Independent

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A poetic guide to experiencing loss and understanding absence, written by Joel Kuennen with illustrations by Somnath Bhatt.

Introduction Two years ago my father died. He was eighty-one and lived a long and good life. We had no traumas between us, nothing to hold on to anyway. He was a kind, sometimes stern, gregarious person who was born in a barn on an Iowa prairie at the end of the Great Depression. During his life he traveled the world, led many community organizations, and worked in countless different professions—from Catholic priest to real estate agent, gas station cashier to armored truck driver. He also taught me how to be a good person despite living in a world that often seems to only value…

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