GRIEF

The Awful Truth About Mickey’s Death

My first experience with loss and grief.

Helen Hensell
4 min readJun 8, 2022

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Photo by Karim Elgamil on Unsplash

I was seven years old when I was confronted by Death for the first time. It was not as gentle or easy as it is often depicted in the movies. Instead, it was abrupt, fast, and scary. No one could have predicted that this could have happened on this particular night.

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Helen Hensell

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