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This is painful, I couldn't bear to do this. I still have an email rule to delete anything mentioning "Father's Day". And then I went scorched-earth-forget-everything and moved every picture of him into a tarball that wouldn't show up in a gallery view. One of these days I'll get around to unpacking that grief.

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i'm similarly irritated whenever I login to Amazon and once a year get guilted with "Have you bought your mother's day gift yet?" for my dead mom.

you would think that a company that prides themselves on their customer information gathering would tip-toe around that stuff a little bit more.. but it barely dissuades future purchases so maybe i'm the idiot for thinking that.

best of luck. it really hurts and always will, but one day the grief will recede and you'll be left with all of the warm memories of your father. it may take years to process the grief, it took me about 3, but it gets better.

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