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Not “feel better” — but feel fully, and respond wisely. A few years ago, I came across a photograph of a polar bear — not the iconic image of one stranded on a melting ice floe, but something quieter and somehow more devastating. It was a mother and her cub, asleep, curled together on a shrinking patch of ice. There was such tenderness in it. And I noticed something happen in me as I looked: a quick, sharp ache — and then, almost immediately, a kind of interior closing. A rea