Kevin Wells, who still lives in Soham, Cambridgeshire, said he could have cried with "joy and relief" after seeing the work of Grief Encounter.

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Being fully open to your grief may be the hardest work you will ever do.

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Setting aside his personal grief, Kumar plunged into work, spending the next decade building on his inheritance.

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Mrs Duggan miscarried again in July 2010, but said that the only way she could work through her grief was to keep trying and she was on a "kind of mission".

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But I know it will cause you grief as well, explanations, more work, stopping everything in its tracks and coming up with valid reasons for why.

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"Like Charlie Chaplain, I'm representing a black comedy so it makes you smile and it gives you grief at the same time, " Diab said of his work.

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The other thing that I would say, which means I am a little less grief stricken than others, is that much of the conceptual work is not the sort of work which, once it's gone, we have lost, because in a sense it was the idea rather than its realisation that helped influence our aesthetic world.

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After getting over his grief and rage, he realized there might just be a market for his work.

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Newtown's schools began their day two hours late, with grief counsellors and police present, but students said they were not expecting to get very much work done.

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And through our grief and our tears, we resolved that their sacrifice would be our summons to carry on their work, to complete this mission, to win this war.

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