“There were blue-black marks everywhere. One never truly knows how fragile life is until you nearly lose it.”

‘What happened to your face and neck?’ In the blink of an eye, my brother became a monster.’: Childhood abuse survivor urges ‘letting go is the best gift we can give ourselves’

‘Stay with me!’ My body was septic. I’d never carry our child. ‘There’s a baby at the hospital. Do you want him?’: After losses, couple foster to adopt, ‘He’s the redemption to our pain’
“‘He’s 3 days old, do you want to pick him up?’”