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and I can't even imagine it. I cannot comprehend what it was like for 99.99% of history. How did they survive burying half of their children? I fully expect my own children to outlive me; it will be considered a rare, unexpected tragedy if they don't. How was this much misery normal for that much of history?

But practically, I think the reason there isn't a separate term is because while the experience certainly had personal relevance, it had little enough relevance on the societal level it didn't need a shorthand. If you were widowed, you were unmarried but had previously been married, this was very relevant to your place in society. What that looked like in practice differed, across time and places, but it usually meant *something*. And if you were orphaned, especially young, this was very relevant to your life situation in that it made you very very vulnerable. If you happened to have lost a child, you mourned them, buried them, and then went on raising your other hopefully still living children.

Andrea Dezsö

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re-post of a drawing from last year because I can’t show anything I’m currently working on!

Sweater weather

Edition of 25

Shaggy Mane Mushroom Ghosts

13 days to Halloween!

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