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Volume 52.1
Winter - Spring
2021

 

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Irene

When the baby is born our son-in-law calls and cries, "She's here! She's here!" We've known for months that we'll get to keep her for only a few days and, with hearts breaking, hold onto each other in hope that when she enters heaven our loved ones there will open their arms and cry, "She's here! She's here!"

newborn as light as feathers her ashes


by Francine Banwarth

 

 

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