When her husband, Ashton B. Carter, the former defense secretary under President Barack Obama, died of a heart attack at home last October, Stephanie Carter was left with many questions about the future.
But one thing she knew right away: She no longer wanted to live in the three-bedroom rental in Boston where it happened.
“I knew immediately I did not want to be in that apartment,” Ms. Carter, 54, said.
“I think people underestimate — or, at least, I did before this — how much grief, loss and trauma inhabit your physical space,” she said.
“We don’t think about how our physical surroundings can really be so integral to how we’re feeling.”
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