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Bereavement

orleans

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5. they say the "firsts" are the hardest

Reply to Tanuki (Original post)

Wed May 11, 2016, 10:58 PM

May 2016

my mom passed over six years ago and the "firsts" were horrible for me, but so were the seconds, and the thirds. maybe the firsts *were* the hardest but.... the following few years were practically just as bad.

i'm very sorry for your loss.

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