Dead Dad's Club

I once caught this scene from Grey's Anatomy, that struck me with its truth:

Christina: There's a club. The Dead Dad's club, and you can't be in it till you're in it. You can try to understand, you can sympathize but until you feel that loss.... My Dad died when I was nine. George, I'm really sorry you had to join the club.

George: I don't know how to exist in a world where my Dad doesn't.

Christina: Yeah, that never really changes.

For so many decades, I have lived with death and loss and I am ever so very sorry to welcome anyone to one of life's fundamental rites of passage.