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How to leave meaningful messages for children who will grow up without you

I have terminal cancer and I'm trying to write letters for my children's birthdays for the next ten years but I don't know what to say to versions of them I'll never meet.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Attempting to love across the boundary of death requires imagining futures we cannot witness or understand.

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