So it doesn't really matter exactly what happened. The song wants to reach past those specifics. It gives a ton of detail, but not quite enough to pin things down enough to rule out any exact possibility. This is such a narrative sweet spot.

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Addendum: Maybe this song is kicking my butt right now because usually when I hear songs about grief, they're at just after the moment. Still in the "immediate processing" stage.

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But processing grief is a lifelong task. It doesn't ever truly go away. Sometimes it's harder than other times, but everyone at my age is still feeling residual pain from an decades-old emotional wound, and often more than one.

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So I really appreciate how the song is about a memory of something that happened a long time ago, and the narrator is still trying to make the pieces fit. You can tell from her calm voice that the stage of active suffering is over, but it's still weighing on her, and she needs closure.

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And it's that perspective, the acknowledgment that it still hurts after all this time, that is getting to me today.

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