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mourning

noun as in sadness, time of sadness

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Zion Godchaux said she also experienced intense, delayed mourning for her late husband, sometimes locking herself in her bedroom for days.

"How much mourning? How many widows? How many orphans? How much pain do we carry -- personally, institutionally, and patriotically -- because of drug trafficking?"

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"In a way, the work is cathartic. It is almost mourning."

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“There have been cameras all over my friends and family mourning. There have been cameras all over me analyzing my every move, analyzing my every smile, my every tear.”

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Vesia has since shared that he was mourning the death of his baby daughter.

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