Grief can be worked through by continuing the deceased’s unfinished work

Evidence

That was when it dawned on me that we were both still working through our grief—his for Ellie, mine for my mother—by picking up their torches, where they left off. What he was doing for Ellie by continuing to follow the story about the daguerreotypes was the same kind of healing work that I was doing for my mother. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 735

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s frame of reparations as emotional as well as legal work — both parties grieving and honoring ancestors, which deepens the reparations argument.