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Browsing the book of faces this evening, I didn’t expect to be walloped.  AGAIN.  My instantaneous puddle of tears made me reconsider never having purchased stock in Kleenex.  What was I thinking?!?

Since our daughter, Lauren, died of lung cancer this May, every single day I think that I might finally have crossed the imaginary threshold of feeling like “it’s okay to be okay” and that I can navigate the day’s activities and happenings with positive and truly-felt positive anticipation.  I feel – and so appreciate – the joy, the love, the smiles, the hope!!  Then WHAM, a sudden, inexplicable, heart-wrenching grief strikes my soul…

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