From Mad in Norway: Grief functions as both a wound and a testimony. It shows us with painful clarity that relationships are like melodies that are abruptly interrupted, but which continue to ring within us. Our relationships also point to the fundamental character of life: its incompleteness . We remain unfinished in the encounter with each other. The one who died becomes an absence that at the same time opens up a space for a symbolic presence .
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