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“Grieving the Man I Thought My Husband Was”

A Slight Change of Plans

What Happened to Our Sex Life?

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"Sex was really hard for me to talk about instaid. What happened to our sex life? And this is a man who courted me with sex and coach bags." "I've usually pretty much given people the benefit of the doubt, but now i really give people the benefit Of The Doubts" 'i got to understand a man in death that i didn't get an opportunity to understand in life,' she says.

Susan Messing and Michael McCarthy were a beloved couple in the Chicago comedy scene. Michael passed away from cancer in 2020. As part of Susan’s grieving process, she began to sift through the 50 or so boxes of his writing that he had left behind for her. What followed was a complicated grief.

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