Linda Button on her toughest writing assignment yet: her business partner’s epitaph.
grief
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We Were Known For Our Rivers
“A grieving daughter channels family memories along the Nueces.”
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A Mother’s Exchange for Her Daughter’s Future
“Two lives bound into one story by immigration and illness.”
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Dead Moms Club: A Mother’s Day Reading List
Eight thoughtful reading recommendations for those who’ve lost their moms.
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My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon
“Today, I will explain to my healthy transplanted heart why, in what may be a matter of days or weeks at best, she — well, we — will die.”
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Nick Cave on the Fragility of Life
“The singer-songwriter believes that we are deeply flawed, impermanent creatures who can sometimes do extraordinary things.”
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All True At Once
You made a fool of the words “feminine” and “masculine” — you were neither, you were both.
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Walking Off Grief on the Appalachian Trail
“Every hiker is called to the trail for a different reason, but we all share a common goal: We all want to finish.”
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What We Search For
“What they searched for wouldn’t look like a body, not anymore.”