mourner

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• As Shekita McBroom walked down the church aisle in Southeast Washington toward her daughter’s body, mourners could see signs of Jayla McBroom’s youth throughout the sanctuary.

• In this case there’s a whole chorus of mourners, but there’s also an abundance of joy, love and levity to soften the blows.

• These include the heaps of flowers left by anonymous mourners at a site associated with the life or death of a famous, beloved public figure.

• She first moved there temporarily as a schoolgirl at 15, living on the same block as Edith Piaf, whose 1963 death caused a flood of mourners — including a pre-fame Gainsbourg — to shut down their street.

• A bright box of postcards might help a mourner open up about their grief, even when they feel disconnected from everyone around them.

• By 1915, mourning attire had begun to draw more attention to the mourner than to the deceased, drawing critics to the practice.

• Grief is isolating, dividing the mourner from anyone who has yet to endure grief.

• Two church members stood outside the Church, embracing each mourner as they walked to the vigil.

• Another mourner said he was thankful he has a Prius that can get as many as 50 miles a gallon.

• But intangibles also count when a president, particularly one long viewed as aloof, has to do double duty as the mourner-in-chief.

• Birch supported the grave and collected manner that was thought becoming in a male mourner.