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“ I don’t know what to do about all this. I don’t know how to process it.”
“Well the thing is, the thing is, when you have someone you know who’s died, you have to grieve, of course, but really, there are different things you have to grieve.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, you know, you have to grieve the loss of the person, you know, the fact that the actual person won’t be there nymore to talk to, to laugh with, to share memories with, that sort of thing.”
“Right.”
“And then you have to, you have to mourn the loss of who that person held you to be. Because that dies with them.Their vision of you no longer exists. And a whole world of who you are is gone. So you have to mourn that, too. A conversation between Anthony Rapp and his ex-boyfriend Keith
“Well the thing is, the thing is, when you have someone you know who’s died, you have to grieve, of course, but really, there are different things you have to grieve.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, you know, you have to grieve the loss of the person, you know, the fact that the actual person won’t be there nymore to talk to, to laugh with, to share memories with, that sort of thing.”
“Right.”
“And then you have to, you have to mourn the loss of who that person held you to be. Because that dies with them.Their vision of you no longer exists. And a whole world of who you are is gone. So you have to mourn that, too. A conversation between Anthony Rapp and his ex-boyfriend Keith
