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How to maintain hope while facing inevitable loss

My child has a terminal illness and I spend every day trying to make everything normal and perfect but I am falling apart inside.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The performance of normalcy in the face of certain tragedy creates an exhausting split between outer composure and inner devastation.

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