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Sandra Yvonne's avatar

💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

Sending lots of love your way, Rachael.

Thank you for sharing these bits of your Papa here.

I love that picture of him; he looks like a gentle badass in those sunglasses.

& I bet his adobo was yummy. I've never had it, but the day I do, it'll be in his honor.

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Beautiful, Rach. So sorry for your loss. I feel grief is such a manipulated emotion, a word to which society generally gives a negative connotation. But grief is remembrance, it's remaining attached, it's feeling the presence of the departed. You don't want to lose these things. And so sometimes we say that somebody has finally exited their grieving period after a loss, almost as if they've been liberated. Why? Why would we want to feel liberated of the intense, immediate memories of our loved ones, when they're no longer with us? I welcome grief. I want grief. I grieve as long as I want to. I don't need any help to get me out of grief. "Yet despite the sting, the ache, and numbness of it, grief is a gift." <3

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