reality

"In coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother... Was it possible... that one could mourn over losses that occurred more than half a century earlier?"

Eileen Simpson, Orphans (1990)

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