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Is it easier to forgive someone when they've been dead and gone, when nothing they do can affect you? It happened to me with someone I loved a lot, but who hurt me really badly... Once he died I found myself remembering him with smiles, laughing about his idiosyncracies. It was almost as if the deed that hurt me had been wiped off the slate, and it was possible for things to be the same as they once were. Except that he had made the passage and I still had to grapple with the real world.