Lo principal que hacía era escucharlos, pero también los animaba a «ver» que todavía les era posible llevar vidas plenas, productivas y felices. La v… - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

For Lily, isolation was an important tool for grieving, as it brought harmony to her inner and outer realities. She instinctually knew this, and she also knew that getting back out there was premature for her. And she knew the time would come.

When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.