This Is Us
I Am Pre-Mourning My Parents
What it’s like to mourn the living
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7 min readMar 29, 2021
Over the winter, I got the urge to travel to my hometown, Pittsburgh. If you’re familiar with my writing, you know I have a love-hate relationship with that place. Two things bring me back home: holidays and funerals. But this time, neither was the reason for my trip. Before shutdown began, I was battling what I…