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I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to confer a sense of reality on the loss but also because it makes it known that this was a real life.

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Judith Butler
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 24
Art Theorist
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Cleveland
Ohio
Judith P. Butler
Judith Pamela Butler
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