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When the world forgets your child who never got to live

My son was stillborn three years ago and people have stopped mentioning him but I still think about who he would have been every single day and I need him to matter.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The parent fights against society's tendency to minimize grief for babies who died before relationships could form.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mortality as teacher — death as clarifying force?”

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