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The Nature of Grief

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JD Breen
Dec 14, 2020
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Atlanta, GA

December 14, 2020

John Adams once asked a septuagenarian Thomas Jefferson if he’d willingly live his life over again. Jefferson assured him that he would, while acknowledging that “even in the happiest life, there are some terrific convulsions, heavy set-offs against the opposite page of the account.”

That brought Jefferson, who had suffered co…

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