Grief is a club with the world's worst initiation rite
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P. got together with three friends for your shared birthday celebration and they all shared memories. The picture M. sent hurt my heart, your absence practically a presence in the back row, slight smiles touching their lips but not the big beer drinking grins I am used to when seeing all of you pictured together, for all of those years. P. looks the same, the blessing of a hairline that receded early and then hardly at all. How I miss them, how I miss you with them.
Grief is a club with the world's worst initiation rite
Grief is a club with the world's worst…
Grief is a club with the world's worst initiation rite
P. got together with three friends for your shared birthday celebration and they all shared memories. The picture M. sent hurt my heart, your absence practically a presence in the back row, slight smiles touching their lips but not the big beer drinking grins I am used to when seeing all of you pictured together, for all of those years. P. looks the same, the blessing of a hairline that receded early and then hardly at all. How I miss them, how I miss you with them.