Grieving My Father Means Also Letting Go of Answers I’ll Never Get

And accepting all the things left unsaid

Melissa-Jane Nguyen
The Personal Essayist
8 min readFeb 5, 2021

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It’s been two years since the day I was told my father had died. And I still have questions. So many questions that I’ll never have definite answers to. And this time of year has brought them all back up again.

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Melissa-Jane Nguyen
The Personal Essayist

Writer and editor. Writing about parenting, writing and life. Working on YA novel. Tea drinker. Book lover. Wife. Mother. https://melissajane.substack.com/