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March 10, 2010 – 1:30 am | No Comment

Question from a reader: It’s now been six months since my mother died. In many ways it seems like worlds and eons since then, but in some ways not at all. I really miss her …

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Creating Web Community Helped Her Deal With the Loss

November 25, 2009 – 1:47 am | No Comment

I was my parents’ principal caregiver for ten years. I have first-hand experience in helping aging parents, dealing with family dynamics and working with public and private organizations. My father died of cancer in 2005 …

How Does Twin Honor the Sister Who Died?

June 11, 2009 – 5:53 am | No Comment

Gladys writes in: I just lost my twin sister three months ago to something we now know as Long QT syndrome. She was perfectly healthy and woke to check on her crying baby one morning …

From Tears to Ideas, the Healing Begins

May 21, 2009 – 1:50 am | No Comment

By Mary Bart —
Words can barely describe the depth of loss I felt when my father died.? I believe that I cried every day for at least a couple of years. My life felt …

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