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They Are
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There is something about gravesites that is not scary to me — just not something I would do. My father was buried in 2020. I have not been back. His wife was buried beside him in 2023. I have not been back for that either. I don't think I ever will. I don't know if that makes me a bad child. But they are not there. What was buried was just the remains of what they used to live in. The people themselves — their voices, their faces, the specific weight of who they were — live rent free in my head and in every family photograph I own. I don't need a plot of land to find them.
Anonymous The Confessional 96 words

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