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People tend to cope with loss in a multitude of different ways. Some choose to live in denial and completely ignore the issue hoping it will someday fade away
while others prefer to confront and discuss the pain in order to get it out of their system and move on.
In Sandra Marslund’s short story “The Other Couple” (2018), she portrays and discusses this topic through a couple on holiday, who notices another mysterious couple on their seemingly empty hotel.
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The cause of her hallucinations is a tragic event that happened prior to the holiday. The couple have lost a child either by miscarriage or still born.
Although this is not directly said in the text, the clues are scattered throughout it. “I lift the flaccid folds of my tummy.
I think back to the taut roundness, the little ripples and punches across its milky surface” The description of her stomach having folds and being round with a milky surface indicates that she was previously pregnant.
Another sign is her reaction to the mothers who are enjoying the beach with their children, “My chest tightens at their maternal swagger.
Why here? Why now?” She is triggered by the women and the children, seeing them have and live the life she desires, the life she was supposed to have, causes her chest to tighten resembling a panic attack.
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