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Grief has a language

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John Ray
Apr 20, 2022
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We were just so hungry, stuck in a city where few spoke—or admitted they spoke—English. The words on the signs and the words they uttered made no sense. In the restaurant we couldn’t tell what was food, what was drink, what was what. A waitress came to take our order, and after a few minutes of our pathetic attempts to communicate, p…

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