There’s Inherent Heartache in Growing Up

I love Disney’s “Inside Out” for many reasons, but mostly because it reminds me of both my girls.

Jacqueline Dooley
Grief Book Club
Published in
6 min readApr 27, 2024

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Snapshot of my girls, ages 4 and 7

I love children’s movies, particularly animated movies of the Disney Pixar variety. My kids aged out of wanting to see these movies exactly nine years ago. In 2015, they were 14 and 11. I know the year because I recall the last…

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Jacqueline Dooley
Grief Book Club

Essayist, content writer, bereaved parent. Bylines: Human Parts, GEN, Marker, OneZero, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Pulse, HuffPost, Longreads, Modern Loss