Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
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The best way to comfort someone grieving is to lean into that pain, even if it means saying the wrong thing, says Danielle Crittenden, who wrote a new book about losing her daughter. “What you want are people to lean into the suck…and just to take your hand.”
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