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Poet Ocean Vuong shares his grief in 'Time Is A Mother'

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The Importance of Resilience in Grief

"I wanted to face that blank page and fill it with an innovation," she says. "What I didn't expect was a truly universal sensation of losing one's mother" The book is full of ghosts, including her uncle who committed suicide in 2012.

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