Letters from Marie
An occasional letter on fertility, grief, and the seasons of becoming and unbecoming
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What disenfranchised grief actually means, and why I keep saying it
The grief society does not make room for, and how naming it begins to lift its weight.
The petri dish loss: grieving the embryo that never implanted
On the losses that have no funeral, no card, no casserole, and why they are losses all the same.
After the miracle baby: nobody told me motherhood would feel like this
When the longed-for arrival brings its own grief and anxiety, and why that does not mean you are failing.
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