What It’s Like Losing A Parent You Aren’t Close To

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You realize you only had that one parent

It also strikes you that that parent—awful as he may have been—was irreplaceable. There’s no other relationship like that. You can only have one mother or father (biological). You can have plenty of best friends and cousins, but only one parent like that.

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