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Love, Loss, and Dad's Death's Bar Mitzvah

Love, Loss, and Dad's Death's Bar Mitzvah

A freeform meditation on love and its loss, both personal and societal

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Deborah Copaken
Dec 08, 2021
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Today marks the 13th anniversary of my father’s death, and I’ve been trying to work on a bunch of other stuff all morning and failing miserably, because grief on the anniversary of a loved one’s death is simply grief allowed one day of untethered expression, which is why we Jews light candles every year, to remind ourselves of the pain of loss living ju…

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