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Tips for Grandparents when a Grandchild Dies
“I am powerlessness. I am helplessness. I am frustration,” are Margaret H. Gerner’s opening lines in her book, For Bereaved Grandparents. Those three sentence grabbed me; a fitting reflection of grief. When we see the death of a young child in … Continue reading
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