How Death Has Impacted My Life

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Death has a different impact on each of us because we are all different and everyone deals with it in different way and this is due by life experience and the story behind us. I think that even though it is very difficult these situation are situations where you can find personal growth and strength.
I personally think I have a particular relationship with death or in general because I become very easily attached to people or even objects that remind me important people to me, because everyone in my life has a role and is important in their own way.
I faced two major losses so far. I first lost my grandfather when I was seven and even though I was only a child I suffered a lot, because he was, as I used to say as a little girl, my “favourite

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