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‘I lost the baby’: Mom thanks ‘miracle’ surrogate after being diagnosed with same pregnancy complication as Kate Middleton
“I simply wrote, ‘This little girl needs her brother or sister. Can anyone help?’ And you know what? Someone replied.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘This was not in my plan’: Mom’s difficult time accepting son attending college 13 hours away
“I have grown up and gone to school my whole life with people who basically look like me, think like me and believe the same things I believe, and that’s not the real world.”
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‘It was a shock to both of us’: Couple with 23-year age difference fall in love after losing children on same day
“It seemed like more than just a coincidence. It was fate saying, ‘Here is someone who knows how you are feeling.'”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘She just wanted to see me get married’: Grandmother’s dying wish comes true to see beloved granddaughter wed
“I didn’t want to let her down, but I also wanted to keep her forever.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I went on a date today– with my son’: Touching way this mom prepares her son to be a ‘perfect gentleman’
“When these sweet little boys grow into almost-men and I watch them escort a girl to the car for the very first time, I hope to beam with pride as they walk around to the passenger side to open her door first.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘This Mother’s Day I will close my eyes and she will be whole’: Daughter reflects on ‘gifts of memories’ before mom had dementia
“In my memories, she is laughing with me. She says my name. She walks to me. She laughs at her Mother’s Day card.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘Everybody is grieving. That’s why.’ Widow embraces beauty of strangers who supported her during funeral procession
“I’ll be honest, I had to sit back and ask myself why. Why would all these people come out to stand in the hot sun and hold signs and cry for a man that they never had dinner with, never had a beer with, never even had a conversation with. Why would they do that?”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I never signed up for this’: Mom of severely autistic daughter thanks the ‘difference-makers’ who ‘deliberately’ step into the world of autism
“They learn to see what others can’t see in your ‘difficult child.’ They love what other people would find unlovable.”
By Eliza Murphy -
A 9-Year-Old’s Letter To Her Disabled Brother
“Just as I start to have fun with you, you push me away and it makes me cry. Why do you do that? I wish you could talk to me and tell me. I would understand. I love you.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I just couldn’t breathe’: Wheelchair-bound groom loses himself seeing his ‘heart and soul’ walk down the aisle
“I’ve never seen anything so stunning. My everything that was and everything to be, looking absolutely breathtaking. I couldn’t help but lose myself in emotion.”
By Eliza Murphy -
