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So I'll read one more from this
book and then I'll move on.

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Grief, as I knew
it, died many times.

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It died trying to reunite
with other lesser deaths.

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Each morning, I lay out
my children's clothing

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to cover their grief.

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The grief remains,
but has changed

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by what it is covered with.

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A picture of oblivion is
not the same as oblivion.

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My grief is not the
same as my pain.

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My mother was a
mathematician, so I

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tried to calculate my grief.

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My father was an
engineer, so I tried

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to build a box around my grief
along with a small wooden bed

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that grief could lie down on.

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The text kept
interrupting my grief,

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forcing me to speak
about nothing.

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If you cut out a rectangle of a
perfectly blue sky, no clouds,

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no wind, no birds, frame
it with a blue frame,

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place it face up on the
floor of an empty museum

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with an open atrium to
the sky, that is grief.

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