I am currently reading Brené Brown's book "Atlas of the Heart" where she mentioned a term I had never heard before--"disenfranchised grief"--but felt so relevant to so much I have talked about with survivors who have lost loved ones who do not fall into our culturally acknowledged definition of family (parents, children, siblings, maybe grandparents and grandchildren). Over the last two years, I have met other survivors who have lost friends, cousins, friend's children who they raised...

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