She Used to Do Puzzles Now She Can’t: A Daughter’s Tearful Realization as Her Mom’s Dementia Deepens

Dementia is a slow, heartbreaking journey that changes not just the person living with it, but the entire family around ...
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From Rape, Repeated Miscarriage, and Broken Friendships to Healing and Hope: How Loss, Grief, and Family Led Two Cousins to Raise Their Daughters Together

In May 2011, she was 17 and just one month away from graduating from high school. One night, she was ...
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Where Was I?’ A Mother’s Unflinching Journey Through Addiction, Judgment, and a Decade of Relentless Love for Her Child

Comments like where were the parents made her furious so often when it came to addiction.It infuriated her. It really ...
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His Final Wish Was to Come Home: A Daughter’s Reflection on Losing Her Father, Childhood Bullying, and the Grief That Shaped Her Life

When her father made his last trip home through hospice, they needed to move the furniture in her parents’ home ...
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From Behind the Lens to the Hospital Bed: A Birth Photographer’s Journey Through Stillbirth, Hydrops Fetalis, and the Courage to Share a Son’s Story of Love and Loss

She was seventeen in the summer of 2011. She was almost done with high school and thinking about what came ...
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