none of those around can know and share what he feels; which is how it is in real life. “I miss her terribly” (I quote from a letter just received)—how many bereaved spouses and parents have used such words, knowing as they did so that they were voicing an essentially private pain into which outsiders could not enter. The loneliness of grief is one of the worst and most draining things about it—and, be it said, one of the most dangerous, too. Richard, who had a way with words, stated that his memoir
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