values, adventures, fears and triumphs, big and small. A loss like this is the loss of a precious and rare resource, a closeness that is supplied to each of us in limited amounts, even though the hole it leaves feels so vast. We are right to treasure this closeness.

There are rituals and there are details, but as difficult as those are, your feelings of emptiness are even harder to survive. Nothing can “get back” or be gotten back. Yet there are ways to see beyond.