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How to have a midlife crisis without leaving your house

Casey Mulligan Walsh writes about life at the intersection of grief and joy and embracing the in-between. Her memoir, The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared, was published by Motina Books in February 2025.

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