(each parent–each easily contributing half to your views, attitudes, values, beliefs, character, and sensibility)
(friends who changed your life and opened doors for you; I would never have developed as a teacher, poet, author, and presenter without my first co-author)
1. the loss of the live in-person presence of that person and all its many positive a/effects on you
2. the loss of that unique sensibility and unique way and style of communication
3. the loss of a shared, mutual microcosm which ends or diminishes a large chunk of the survivor’s life. We are talking end of, or the irreplaceable diminishment and shrinkage of shared perspectives and kindred-spirit common ground. In short, a major diminishment in one’s own life (as in Donne’s “No man is an island”).