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asked:

top 10 displays of mourning and lamentation

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answered:
  • My grandmother, dead many years, has taken to having her own special room, with her own things she likes there, in which she can sit and look out the window.
  • My dad has recently got into the habit of sitting in the car for fifteen minutes while listening to sad music, usually while driving very quickly and erratically up and down the roads around here.
  • The sun just set while I was out for a walk. I went up the hill to the point where the road gets narrower, walked up there for ten minutes, and turned around before the sunset had faded.
  • My mother just spent the past week sitting in bed for a large fraction of the day.
  • The other day my dad and I watched a long sad video of a girl being abused by her family, and then afterward the girl’s father (who had some sort of connection to the production) wrote some words of appreciation and encouragement on the screen while it was still showing.
  • My dad and I have been to an ant colony and watched a nest of ants, hundreds of them, go by very quickly on the highway at midnight. The ants seemed to be very upset.
  • On the way back from the store today, we saw a house lit up like a Christmas tree, with a big yellowish lightbulb in the windows, and the rest of the house a ghostly pale.
  • That’s all I can think of so far, I have a lot of books to read before the day is out.