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Nov 12Liked by Katie Hawkins-Gaar, Rebecca Coates

Sending you my love, and to all the sensitive souls holding this grief.

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Thank you for showing us how it’s done ❤️

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Nov 12Liked by Rebecca Coates

This does feel very different from 2016. I've read lots of analyses this week and yours is the most helpful to my current state of mind. Thank you!

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My mom said the same thing! I think you two are both very biased, but I love and appreciate it! 😘 (Also my neighborhood book club is reading The Small and the Mighty this month, which is bringing me some much-needed hope and perspective.)

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Nov 12·edited Nov 12

Katie, thank you for these words. Truly. I was crying as I devoured your words (quickly gulping them in, knowing I need to go back to slowly savor them later) and am still crying now as I type my own words here.

I am a therapist (and, you guys, we are not okay) holding space for the devastated women I work with, and you just held space for me in my intense grief. And I am so grateful. So grateful.

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Grieving with you. My emotions keep wavering between anger and sadness. But, I am so glad you mentioned the "sixth stage of grief". We will make meaning. It doesn't mean it is okay, but we will try to pick up the pieces we have left. We have no choice!

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I needed this, I'm still sitting squarely in sadness and I'm fairly comfortable here. Thanks for the link to Ann's article, it is great. Let us all find some sense of peace wherever and whenever we are able.

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