Name: The Year Of Magical Thinking
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Author: Joan Didion

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Chapter 1 The Night Everything Changed

Grief is not sadness. It is a physical, disorienting state that changes how you think. The brain protects us with magical thinking, convincing us the …

Chapter 2 Grief Rewires Your Mind 🔒

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Chapter 3 The Logic of Magical Thinking 🔒

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Chapter 4 The Ambush of Ordinary Things 🔒

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Chapter 5 You Cannot Grieve on Schedule 🔒

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Chapter 6 How to Survive the Unsurvivable 🔒

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Chapter 7 Love Does Not Require Resolution 🔒

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The Year Of Magical Thinking

One evening, Joan Didion sat down to dinner with her

husband. By the time the meal ended, he was gone. What

followed was a year of grief so consuming it rewired how

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