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In 1973 Claire Mulholland published a collection of poems written to and about her child who had died of leukaemia. The shortest said simply:
Worst of all was the agony Of not knowing What you knew.
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Lansdown, R. (1987). The Development of the Concept of Death and Its Relationship to Communicating with Dying Children. In: Karas, E. (eds) Current Issues in Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6778-3_4
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