In the version of grief we imagine, the model will be "healing." A certain forward movement will prevail. The worst days will be the earliest days ... We have no way of knowing ... ahead of the fact (and here lies the heart of the difference between grief as we imagine it and grief as it is) the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaninglessness itself.
-- Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking, p. 188-189
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