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Songs About Ambiguous Loss (Pauline Boss): When the Person Is Here But Not Really Here

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  2. The insight — Songs that hold the unresolved grief of a relationship that never fully closed. Ambiguous loss theory from Dr. Paulin...

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Songs that hold the unresolved grief of a relationship that never fully closed. Ambiguous loss theory from Dr. Pauline Boss, applied to music — for people whose parent is alive but somehow absent.

 

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