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Grief does not end when the service is over, it keeps echoing in ordinary places, in old friendships, and even in the way we fall in love again. I’m Candee Lucas, a Jesuit-trained chaplain and spiritual director, and I wanted to add a postscript to my recent conversations with Sandi Moran Brafford, because people who are grieving deserve to hear a simple truth: there is life after. Not a neat life, not an unscarred life, but a real one.

We talk about why telling the story matters, especially when your mind keeps circling the details trying to organize what happened. Sandi shares a surprising and tender thread from her own grief journey: she worked at a funeral home, and that is where she kept running into John at funerals and visitations. Out of repeated moments of shared community and shared mourning, a relationship began, one honest conversation at a time.

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