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While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
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“But I was learning that you can’t fast-forward through grief or read a CliffsNotes version of your life and expect to make peace with it.”
― While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
― While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
“Trauma does that to you. It steals your memory. I either couldn’t or didn’t let myself remember her or talk about her.”
― While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
― While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
“It’s okay to be disappointed, but don’t get discouraged. I”
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― While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
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