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'I'm Overwhelmed With Grief!' - by Heather Havrilesky

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I'll try to ask this but succinctly, but in the last year I had three miscarriages and I lost my dad. I am overwhelmed with grief and I don't know how to untangle this messy, ugly, and wet-from-tears season of my life. How do I keep going through the everyday motions when all I want to do is scream “Fuck you!” at everyone at the top of my lungs? Thanks for your advice. Drowning In Tears Dear Drowning In Tears, I’m sorry about your first miscarriage. I’m sorry about the second one. I’m extra sorry about the third one. It’s just unfair and it’s awful. And I’m so sorry about your dad. I want to sit down next to you and hold your hand and say: It’s not fair. I’m so sorry. I’d like to just sit for a long time in silence together. If I sat next to you and we didn’t talk at all, it would be awkward for a while. Eventually, though, I would start to feel how heavy your life has been for the past year, just by sitting there. I’d feel the weight of it all in my bones. The light would grow a littl

Notes for an Apocalypse (1978) by Dorothea Tanning Hi Polly, I'll try to ask this but succinctly, but in the last year I had three miscarriages and I lost my dad. I am overwhelmed with grief and I don't know how to untangle this messy, ugly, and wet-from-tears season of my life. How do I keep going through the everyday motions when all I want to do is scream “Fuck you!” at everyone at the top of my lungs? Thanks for your advice. Drowning In Tears Dear Drowning In Tears, I’m sorry about your first miscarriage. I’m sorry about the second one. I’m extra sorry about the third one. It’s…

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