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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m so sorry, OP.

My father passed with my daughter was just under two.  Her other grandfather died before I met her dad. We talk about them as if they’re in our lives as it comes up naturally. And we didn’t really talk about the death piece until she asked where her grandparents were (she has two living grandmothers).

She’s three now and has more questions. I try to answer them openly without spinning fantasy or being scary. It’s painful to talk about my dad still so I try to ask her more questions and if we do something he liked or use something that belongs to any of our elders I make note of it. We look at pictures sometimes too. I’m not sure how much she’s getting now, but trying to lay a foundation and be in habit of mentioning them all often. My own grandmother was one of my closest companions, so we talk about her a bunch, using her own grandmother for context. It gets easier even with all the questions. The book The Invisible String is a good one.  [/quote]

WHEN she was just under two, not with...sorry, typos [/quote]

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