My mum has died – and there is one kind of response I can’t stand | Polly Hudson
The platitudes, euphemisms and cliches are excruciating. But the people who say nothing at all are the worstLuckily, I already knew having a comic thought at a tragic moment is a natural stress response, or I might have worried. My mum has died, making me an orphan – and what first popped into my head was how annoyed Larry David would be.In Curb Your Enthusiasm, when Marty Funkhouser’s mother’s wheelchair was run over by a car, he proclaimed himself an…
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