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Invisible child: A story of stillbirth

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In 2002, everything I thought I knew about life changed. It was on Sept. 21 when I felt the last kick of my baby. Two days later, I would meet my child who lacked a heartbeat. On Sept. 23, 2002, I gave birth to him, Connor Marley, my baby who died 32 weeks into my […]

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Brittle Leaves, a poem

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The other day I showed a co-worker my new poetry book, Everything I Am Not Saying. She noticed I dedicated it to “Connor”, and wondered who that was. I told her he was my third child who died just a few months before he was supposed to be born. She and I connected over our

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