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Why Losing a Pet is One of the Worst Kinds of Grief

If you’ve ever owned a pet, you would know what amazing and loyal companions they are. They’re the friendly faces, and I swear some of them smile like humans, the wagging tail, and the burst of excitement when you walk in the door from a long day at school or work. Even if you’ve only been gone for 20 minutes on a short errand, they will make you feel like the most important person in the entire world when you come back home. But what happens when they don’t come back home? For all pet parents, we dread the day that we will call their last. We take them to the vet, discover an illness, and immediately our lives are completely flipped upside down. Losing a pet can happen in a variety of ways, expected or not, and no matter what it hurts just the same. The thought that you’ll never

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The Five Stages of Grief: Math Class Edition

5. Denial When you wake up in the morning, you forget for a moment the impending torture that is looming in the near distant future: math class.  Soon enough, it hits you, and you try to force the overwhelming horror from your mind.  This can’t be happening – this. can’t. be. happening.