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How to navigate your deceased child's birthday

It is my son's birthday tomorrow and he would have been sixteen and I do not know whether to celebrate or mourn or pretend the day does not exist.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Anniversaries demand acknowledgment but offer no script for honoring a life that ended too soon.

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