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what is an empathy card?
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what is an empathy card?
After my mom died, my mailbox filled with sympathy cards. Stacks of them arrived in those first stunned weeks when time folded in on itself and the days blurred into visits, logistics, food left on the porch. I was grateful for every single one. People, some who I hadn't spoken to in years, had taken the time to choose a card, to write a message, to send it across distance. And then the funeral ended.
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