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DON’T think we can ever say that grief heals — at least for me that has never been true — but it is a road you cannot avoid. Death leaves you no choice but to travel it. You have reached a point in your life where you will know more truly than ever before what it means to be human.

But over time, as the unavoidable pain forces you down this road, you begin to learn something entirely new. As you travel deeper into the awful truth of emptiness and loss, you discover a new way of loving that begins to grow inside you.

It is little more than a gentle whisper at first, almost inaudible