Grief confuses us by spinning us around to face backward, because memories are all we have left, but of course it isn’t the past we mourn when someone dies; it’s the future. That’s what I realized while talking with my friend —that everything that happened in my life from that point on would be something else my father would not see.
Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir (New York: Random House, 2022), p. 74
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