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Topic: loss

An urn, some receipts and invoice letters (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

My parents died. It's a whole second job

Becky Robison
The author with Cai Emmons, wearing one of Cai's scarves. (Photo illustration by Salon/Photo courtesy of the author/Getty Images)

The comfort in my dying friend's scarves

Miriam Gershow
Old perfume bottles on a shelf at the Gulab Singh Johrimal perfume store on November 24, 2015 in Old Delhi, India (Arkaprava Ghosh/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Is this what love smells like?

Roc Morin
Fingers Crossed (Getty Images/Marlene Ford)

When trauma makes you not yourself

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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"All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir" by Erin Lee Carr (Penguin Random House/Stephanie Geddes)

Erin Lee Carr on her moment of reckoning

Erin Keane
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Clarity, halfway around the world

Julia Bainbridge - The Lonely Hour
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How to get through the worst, together

Lauren Schiller

Kirsten West Savali - DAME
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(Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

Mutiny on the Amazon

Andrew Leonard
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