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Jen Belcher (Travel & Books)'s avatar

Love this! Good for you. Thanks for being so extra vulnerable lately.

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Melissa Makarewicz's avatar

Thank you, Jen. I hope my vulnerability will help others. 🫶🏼

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Jen Belcher (Travel & Books)'s avatar

It will. 🙂❤️

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Writer Xenia Berlioz's avatar

Thank you for this beautiful piece. It resonated deeply — especially the way you wrote about grief not as a single event but as something that reshapes time, memory, even language.

I'm currently working on my first novel, which also centres on grief — its quiet, disorienting aftermath, and how it weaves itself into the fabric of everyday life. Writing through it has been a way of learning how to carry it, how to keep moving while holding something that never fully leaves.

Reading this reminded me why we write in the first place. To say: I was here. This mattered. Thank you again for sharing your words.

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