Why does losing a friendship hurt longer than losing a lover?

Morrison's fiction and Bâ's epistolary writing make women's relationships subjects of sustained attention. Read them to explore what friendship can hold beyond its public status, rather than to rank kinds of grief. What did this friendship make possible that now feels absent?

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