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This episode is part of a series looking at how the approach to supporting grieving children has or hasn\\u2019t changed over time. We\\u2019ll be talking to people who had parents die in different decades, starting in the 1940\\u2019s. We\\u2019re hoping to discover how parents, kids, and other adults such as teachers and coaches reacted to children after a death.\\xa0

Cathy was just 5 and a half when her mother died of suicide. While she knew her mother died,\\xa0Cathy didn\'t fully understand what happened because the death wasn\\u2019t clearly explained to her. As a teenager and into her early twenties, Cathy filled in the gaps of the story with new information. Information and that enabled her to make more sense of her mother\'s death and how the grief continues to be part of her life, 40 years later.\\xa0