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grieve

verb as in upset, distress someone

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The book’s version of him is pretty much the same, perhaps because O’Farrell doesn’t reveal that this fictional grieving character is Shakespeare until the last page.

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As hard as it is, especially for me coming to terms with losing a relative who you love dearly and you're very close to, having not fully grieved.

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“I’ll grieve it,” he says, setting the instrument down and zipping it back up into its case.

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We grieve the losses and explore time-tested ways to open the door for a loved one’s possible return.

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Heaney grieves the violence, memorializing its complexity and horror in a poem that can stand with Yeats and Auden.

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