One day, six-year-old Jennifer took out her scissors and made paper dolls.

She made little girl dolls and boy dolls and grown-up dolls too.

When she started taking the dolls and putting them under pieces of paper, her parents began to worry…all the while, Jennifer talked about the dolls dying and being buried.

She was playing “funeral”.

Once her parents made the connection to Jennifer’s aunt, who had died two months earlier, they relaxed. They understood that Jennifer was attempting to adjust to the loss.

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend
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