How Did You Process That Last Conversation?

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Anne-Marie Slaughter: I don't think i've ever lived in sadness like that before. She says michael left her 50 boxes of his writings after he died. He was a word hoarder and needed to see them, she writes. "I did start discovering this guy who was not for me, not not for the world"

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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