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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
Author
Clinical Psychologist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Proportion
Detachment
Despite
Circumstance
Grief
Described
Air
Distress
Circumstances
Thin
Growing
Thrive
Nourishing
Earth
Metaphor
Allegory
Depression
Thrives

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