HeyJaredhannah is a writer
personal essays exploring nostalgia, grief, light, and life.
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Do you still want to be friends? (opens the original)
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I was warned about it. I had witnessed it happen. I volunteered in hospice spaces years prior and saw strangers experience it firsthand. I naively, stupidly, dumb-assedly didn’t think it would happen to me.It’s been about three months since my dad died. I’m no longer grieving just the loss of my dad, but the loss of friendships too. People I have known for decades pretending they don’t see me in the grocery store. A text message I sent to an old coworker: “Hey, want to grab dinner this week?” Re
My dad doesn't call me anymore (opens the original)
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For the most part, people have stopped asking about it. I operate under the general assumption that if I wanted to talk about it, I can and should be the one to bring it up first. But if I’m being completely honest with myself, even as someone who embraces wide-open vulnerability as an act of benevolence, it still feels horrible to talk about. I want to talk about it. Almost 100% of the time I’m awake, I want to talk about it. And then almost 100% of the time I start, I don’t even know what I wa
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