Grief. Has time carried on without you? When someone dies, the world gathers for a week, maybe two. And then, because it is built to, it ends. This is about the grief that begins after that, in the third month and the second year, and about making new memories with someone who is gone.

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Written by the author and narrated in an AI-generated copy of the author's own voice. Music: Memories by Adriel Dos Santos, from Pixabay.

It doesn't feel like a cage. It feels like a reasonable place to live. On the daydream you feel guilty for wanting, the potential you keep safe by never spending it, and the key that was inside the whole time.

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Written by the author and narrated in an AI-generated copy of the author's own voice. Music: Memories by Adriel Dos Santos, from Pixabay.

You are grieving someone who is still alive to answer you, and will not. That is why it never closes.

This one is about heartbreak. Having your heart broken by someone who is still here, and grieving a loss no one holds a funeral for.

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Written by the author and narrated in an AI-generated copy of the author's own voice. Music: Memories by Adriel Dos Santos, from Pixabay.

You are the one everyone calls. No one calls to check on you. An essay for the capable person quietly wearing thin where nobody thinks to look.

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Written by the author and narrated in a digital copy of the author's own voice. Music: Memories by Adriel Dos Santos, from Pixabay.