On Losing a Loved One

50-word story

Navya Gupta
Catharsis
1 min readJul 5, 2020

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Her husband passed away last year, they asked how she was still so poised.

She replied, “Losing a loved one is much more painful than death itself. I’d much rather have myself deal with his loss than for him to suffer from mine.”

That was how much she loved him.

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