Last night, I found out that my father died...
...and despite never getting to meet him, and basically despising him much of my life because of how he treated my mother, I still feel some grief over the loss. In Josh's thread, I said that using positive memories of the past can help overcome this, but I have none of those, so has anyone else here been in a similar situation, where they've lost either an estranged loved one, or a relative they've never met, and still felt grief? And if so, what did you do to overcome it? I'm also a bit sobered by this experience because he died four days before my 23rd birthday, and was buried on that date.
