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Oh God—you are going to be so unhappy.

—Gail Godwin

I am very sorry to learn that Ray died a couple of weeks ago. When someone I loved died I found it helpful to remind myself that this person was not less real because she wasn’t real now, just as people in New Zealand aren’t less real because they aren’t real here.

—Derek Parfit

When my mother died I adopted the Gestalt technique of saying to myself, whenever there was a surge of grief, “I choose to have a mother who is dead.”

—T. D., a former colleague at the University of Windsor

One breath at a time, Joyce. One breath at a time.

—Gloria Vanderbilt