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Parents of lost babies and potential of all kinds: come here to share the technicolour, the vividness, the despair, the heart-broken-open, the compassion we learn for others, having been through this mess — and see it reflected back at you, acknowledged and understood.

Thanks to photographer Xin Li and to artist Stephanie Sicore for their respective illustrations and photos.

for one and all > I miss him.

I miss him so desperately this week, today, that I ache with it. I feel like my heart might fall to pieces all over again.

I've been sitting here staring at his picture for half an hour.

I know it's the same for all of you, or has been at some point. I just needed to say it somewhere where someone else can understand it and won't look blankly at me (or with pity) and say they are sorry because there is nothing else to say.

God, I miss my son. Oh, how I want him back again.
May 27, 2010 | Unregistered Commentereliza
I feel it too Eliza, you arent alone. Here we sit, missing them, and somehow it connects us too. My love honey...
May 27, 2010 | Unregistered Commentermindy
It isn't fair, Eliza. Not one bit of it. The absence. The emptiness. I wish there was some way to fill the void. Many hugs.
May 27, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSteph
You are not alone. I wish he was here with you. Holding you from a distance.
May 27, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterMonique
thinking of you x
May 27, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterb
Thinking of you Eliza. xx
May 27, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterMaddie
Thinking of you, sending hugs, and hoping it gets easier. I'm feeling the same way this week, missing her so so much. You're in my thoughts.
May 27, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterrachel
I know what you mean... the ache, the pain.

Thinking of you while you go through this. Hoping that you're able to find solace as you go through these emotions.

hugs,
Sarah
May 27, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSarah H
Oh Eliza. It does ache sometimes. Thinking of you and your son. xo
May 28, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterCatherine W
Eliza, I'm here aching too. Much love to you. x
May 28, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterJeanette
Definitely here with you Eliza. In 5 hours it will be 8 weeks since Reid died and I am ready to crawl in bed and cry. The big empty space in my chest is aching horribly.
May 28, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterCara