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You’ve probably been to one. A funeral or a memorial service. Casket at the front or an urn on a small table. Either way, the service that felt borrowed from somewhere else. The eulogy that was just a list of dates and job titles. The officiant who kept calling him Robert when everyone in the room had only ever called him Bob. The strange, hollow feeling on the drive home. The sense that something important had just happened, but that it hadn’t actually been said. If you’ve e

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