Allie's dad passed away this weekend. This is to let her know we're thinking about her.

It's something we all have to deal with, eventually, and it's instinctive to try to dismiss the event as "part of the process of living", or even "something we all have to deal with, eventually", but for the person going through it, it is the worst thing in the world, i should think. it's not normal, not part of anything. it is loss, unfair and horrible. you try to steel yourself by thinking about it in advance, and you may even go so far as to think you're "ready". but then it comes, in whatever shape it comes, and there is only devastation. for those of us not dealing with it, we see the other end, past the acute grief, see everything in the world returning to a functioning normal, but for those In It, that's so far away as to be fantasy.

So, for Allie, I can't emphasize, I can't understand, I won't say it's all going to be okay, but I am thinking of ya, and we are here for ya, should you need it.

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