Pearl E’s Reviews > The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change > Status Update

Aside from plays and entertainment, we are, in the end, wrestling with ourselves to settle the paradox of absence and presence. Where is the person I care about? Who am I now that they have left me? Who am I now that I am divorced, unemployed, broke? Who am I now that my loved one has a terminal illness? How many children do I tell people I have if one was stillborn or disappeared, or refuses to see me?