A Breakup Is Like a Microdose of Grief

Losing my dad somehow prepared me for my breakup

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I lost my father almost three years ago, and it remains something that I struggle to talk about. I have very few articles about him, simply because it is too painful to discuss. I put almost everything into words, yet I am at a loss when wording my grief. My grief is a beast of its own making, it is huge and…