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THEHUMAN DIARYThere is a word for what you felt.
Loss

n.Missing someone most in the specific place you used to greet them.

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The Porch Light

She can do the whole house.

That is what surprises people, including her daughter, including the woman from the bereavement service who came twice and was very kind and did not come again.

Elena can sit in his chair. She has done it deliberately, as a test, and it was fine. She sleeps on her own side out of habit rather than superstition and has thought about moving over and has decided she prefers the wall.

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