How to grieve for 100,000 lives

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By John Pavlovitz

100,000 lives in 108 days.
100,000 mothers, best friends, favorite uncles, beloved teachers, helpful neighbors, papas, grandmas, first loves, only children, soul mates.
100,000 givers and helpers and creators and lovers and thinkers and healers.
100,000 silenced laughs and interrupted plans and abandoned dreams and stilled bodies and quieted voices.
100,000 empty chairs and beds and house and embraces.
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You do it by admitting that it’s happened; by naming the reality and facing it fully and allowing it to break your heart, and not looking away from it on your way to a normal life that you’re so anxious to return to that you’d rather ignore it—but you don’t because you know that 100,000 families will never be able to wish it away or pretend it isn’t real or deny it out of existence.
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[Laelth]

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-Laelth

When there are no words.