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The Empty Room Clean “I meant the list toThe Empty Room: Understanding Sibling Loss by Elizabeth DeVita Raeburn Ted is Elizabeth DeVita Raeburn's older brother, best friend, and the "ringmaster of her days." On a September morning when she is six, she wakes up and ted is gone. Her parents explain that he went to the hospital for a while. "A while" turns out to be eight years in a plastic bubble, where he dies of a rare autoimmune disease at the age of seventeen. In this unflinching, haunting