I ran into Attorney X in the elevator today. He's a senior partner, and one of the nicest people I've had the privilege of working with at the firm. After Philip died, he took the time to commiserate with me; he lost his wife more than 20 years ago and is now happily remarried. He told me not to worry about following anybody's rules but my own, that "this is a very exclusive club, one that you didn't want to join." He even lent me his marked up copy of C.S. Lewis' A Grief Observed. Despite the Christian references (I just skipped over those parts) I found it a wonderful book and quite helpful.
In the elevator, he asked me how I was doing, to which I replied that I was doing all right, things were basically going pretty well. He said to me, "You look a lot better, like you're getting back into the swing of things. It takes a while, I know."
So nice.
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