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Buffy the Vampire Slayer follows Buffy Summers, a teenager chosen to be the latest in a line of “Slayers.” With the help of her close-knit group of friends, she faces both literal and emotional demons like grief, identity, love, and growing up. Grief is not just about death but also about change and loss of the life we expected or even the person we expected to be. Buffy the Vampire Slayer gives us great language for grief.

There’s a particular kind of grief that comes with losing something you’re not supposed to be this attached to. I found myself minimizing my own loss. Telling myself I was being dramatic, that it was “just running.” But grief doesn’t care whether something looks important from the outside. It only cares about what it meant to you. And running? Running meant a lot to me.