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We the Living & Our Dead

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Post my brother's death and interment, I have been offered grief therapy but I am not jumping to the opportunity just yet. I just want to sit with my grief and roil in it awhile...

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Dec 05, 2024
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It’s been an excrutiatingly painful ten days since Joe died and three days since he was interred on the family farm on the foothills of the Aberdares, a most fitting place, chosen by my dear mother. God grant her comfort and courage to face the days ahead.

My heart is troubled and I can’t stop the tears. Questions linger a…

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