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You Don't Lose Someone Until You've Already Become Them

What Happens When the Mirror Breaks and You're Still Standing: A Portal Guide to Grief

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Dea Devidas
Oct 09, 2025
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A note before we begin: Look, I’m about to tell you something that’s going to sound completely insane, but stay with me because your nervous system is about to have its “oh SHIT” moment. 💫

You know that thing where someone leaves: your cat, your person, your entire sense of self, and you’re on the floor at 2am ugly-crying into a pizza box wondering if you’re going to survive this? Yeah. That. 💔

Here’s the plot twist nobody tells you: You don’t lose someone because the universe hates you. You lose them because you just graduated. 🎓✨

I KNOW. I fucking know. You want to throw this article at my head right now. “Graduated?? GRADUATED?! I’m literally in the fetal position, what the fuck are you talking about...?” I know because it’s just happening to me, so... I’ve got some insights to share.

So hear me out, because what I’m about to show you isn’t some “everything happens for a reason” spiritual bypassing bullshit. This is quantum physics. Nervous system mechanics. The actual energetic ar…

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