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This is a piece I’ve been working on with the hope of capturing my experience of grief in these early months after the loss of my father. This is not an essay on how it feels to be on the other side of the hurt or the problem. Nothing is mastered here, I do not have 5 bullet point suggestions. It is, as Glennon Doyle calls it, the “messy middle.” I am happy to meet you there.