n.Sorrow that others do not consider you entitled to feel.
Kenneth Doka, 1989Established psychological concept
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Daniel found out from Facebook, eleven days late, which is roughly the correct amount of dignity for the situation.
Marc had died on the fourteenth. There had been a service on the twenty-second. Two hundred people. He counted the photographs.
They had been together for six years, and had separated eight years ago, and had not spoken since 2021.
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He went to work the next day because there was no mechanism for not going.