Dear Jack,
I still cry over the loss of my girl…It has been a difficult year filled with illness and other deaths. Grief, I've learned, can snowball into past griefs, past deaths. Each new passing, the grief reminds me of other passings. I guess, though, the tears are not as gut-wrenching as they used to be.
You’re already healing, whether you know it or not. The day will come and you will find that your love is stronger than your tears; your tears will come slowly and your love will come strong and overtake the tears. You'll see. You never know until it happens…and that is the day your girl will celebrate and be able to run free on the wings of your love for her.
It’s so important to work through the grief. It won’t go away on its own. Some people try to sweep it under the rug, but it will keep coming back to you until you face it. Every loss is a death and yes, every death brings back all the unresolved emotions of all the other deaths.
Have you experienced the loss of a pet or the loss of a dear family member within months, weeks, days, or even hours of each other? It can be overwhelming when you experience more than one loss at a time. It can come in twos and threes. Three deaths can happen all at once. This is because certain souls are so entwined that they must leave together and wait together for you on the other side. There are reasons for everything…
Take your losses one at a time, heal each one and one day you will look back and realize how strong you are.
Love, Jack
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